The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights: An Intellectual History

by Robert Garner and Yewande Okuleye

Animal rights is now a concept that has achieved wide name-recognition. Vegetarianism, and even veganism, is now commonplace, representing a massive transformation in public attitudes. Fifty years ago, the concept of animal rights was almost unheard of and the animal protection movement lay dormant. Even vegetarians were regarded as, at best, cranks and, at worst, dangerous critics of the social order. Yet the late 1960s and early 1970s were a formative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197508499
• ISBN13: 9780197508497
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"