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Article: Do Women Need to Liberate Animals too?
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- 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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Do Women Need to Liberate Animals too?
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 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 Feminist for Animal Rights.
Merle ...