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Article: Do women need to liberate animals too?
- Article from:
- Herizons
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Herizons Fall 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Carol Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals. In the 1970s, Adams started a hotline for battered women and since then has served on national commissions on domestic violence and been active in housing issues. She believes that until we recognize how people who have no power--whether it's women or people of colour or the working class--are positioned as being closer to animals, that the human/animal barrier will retain its power and influence.
Merle Hoffman is the editor and publisher of On the Issues, a progressive quarterly published in New York.
Both women are on the advisory board of Feminists for Animal Rights.
Merle ...