Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice
Dr. lisa kemmerer
ISBN: 978-0252078118
Publisher: University of Illinois, 2011
Overview
Sister Species is filled with bold and gripping—sometimes horrifying—personal narratives that bear witness to such concerns as factory farming, vivisection, cockfighting, the bushmeat trade, all the while nudging readers to reassess how the choices we make in our day-to-day lives create and further oppression—and change how we live. Sister Species: Women, Social Justice, and Animal Advocacy exposes interconnections of oppression between speciesism, sexism, racism, and homophobia, making explicit why every woman should be an anymal activist, why every anymal activist should be a feminist, and why all social justice advocates ought to be vegan.
Book Quotes
“There is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and suffering: Walking into pain in the hope of bringing change moves a person from helplessness and despair to empowered activism.”
— Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice
“There is a reward for courage and determination in the face of helplessness and suffering: Walking into pain in the hope of bringing change moves a person from helplessness and despair to empowered activism.”
— Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice
“Activists need to develop the kind of understanding that will lead to a lifestyle—a way of being—that works against all oppressions.”
— Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice
“Violent men sometimes purposefully create terror in women by threatening a beloved child, cat, or parakeet. Men sometimes harm or kill nonhuman animals, using them as pawns to establish or maintain power and control over women.”
— Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice