Oppressive Liberation
Dr. lisa kemmerer
ISBN: 978-3031153624
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
Overview
Employing the work of previous scholars, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer exposes the frequency and causes of sexism and male privilege in social justice activism, then systematically exposes causes, pervasiveness, harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and male privilege in the animal activist movement. This book provides new data, not previously published, from an ongoing survey of sexism among animal activists. Voices in the survey and highly personal testimonials reveal the commonplace nature of sexism in animal activism, exposing both perpetrators and the crushing harms that result: The book offers an extensive array of possible directions for change.
Throughout the text, Kemmerer returns to the interface of sexism and speciesism; one full chapter explores philosophies of interconnection. Oppressive Liberation also includes six essays from contributing authors (chapters 12-17) who expand the scope and depth of the book, providing different points of view from different places in the world, while also offering contextualized experiences with intersectional oppressions. This book focuses specifically on animal activism, but the explicit end-goal of Oppressive Liberation is total liberation—an end to all forms of privilege and marginalization.
Book Quotes
“Some of the world’s biggest killers (including heart disease, a number of common cancers, obesity, diabetes, and infections from pathogens such as E. coli) are more likely for those who consume flesh, diary, or eggs. Anymal agriculture is implicated in a number of additional serious and deadly medical concerns, including respiratory diseases, antibiotic resistance, and zoomorphic diseases—which are funded and furthered by those who buy anymal products, but which affect all human beings.”
- AMORE, Health Chapter
“In choosing our diet, we choose not only whether or not a pig, cow, sheep, or chicken will live a miserable life and face slaughter in their adolescence, but whether or not mothers will be allowed to raise their young, whether or not the sacred bond between young and their mothers will be respected and honored. . . . Only vegans refuse to participate in the suffering and death that defines anymal agriculture.”
- AMORE, Feminism Chapter
“Farmers burn fossil fuels to prepare the land, to plant, fertilize, harvest, and then to transport and store millions of tons of feedcrops. Anymal agriculture burns fossil fuels to transport herds and flocks to slaughter and then to move anymal products to shops and for cold storage. Anymal agriculture is also the largest source of human-induced methane, created and emitted into the environment by the decomposition of manure and the digestion process of billions of cattle, sheep, and goats birthed and raised as “food,” and human-induced nitrous oxide, which is created and emitted by the decomposition of manure and synthetic fertilizers made from the trillions of tons of manure produced on anymal farms”
- AMORE, Environment Chapter
“Perhaps more importantly (and rather obviously), 2000-year-old descriptions of ritual sacrifices that were performed before Jesus became the final sacrifice—abrogating the need for any further sacrifice—have nothing to do with eating a cheeseburger in the 21st century.”
- AMORE, Religion Chapter