Bearing Witness Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) /
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain's foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison's bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: Radical Roots (1920-1961)
- 2. Meet the Winstens: A 'Downstart' Anglo-Jewish family
- 3. Becoming an Activist: Ruth Harrison's Turn to Animal Welfare
- Part Two: Synthesis - The Post-war Landscape of Welfare Science and Activism (1945-1964)
- 4: Between Physiology and Psychology: Ethology and Animal Feelings
- 5. Ideals and Intensification: Welfare Campaigns in a Nation of Animal Lovers
- 6. Staging Welfare: Writing Animal Machines
- Part Three: Impact (1964-68)
- 7. From Author to Adviser: Ruth Harrison and the Animal Machines Moment
- Part Four: Defining Welfare (1967-1979)
- 8. A 'Minority of One': Harrison and the FAWAC
- 9. Ruth the Ruthless: Activism, Welfare, and Generational Change
- 10. Slippery FACTs: The Rise of a "Mandated" Animal Welfare Science
- Part Five: From Eclat to Consensus (1979-2000)
- 11. From Protest to 'Holy Writ': The Mainstreaming of Welfare Politics
- 12. Non-conform Evidence:The Impasse of 1990s Welfare Research
- 13. Conclusion.