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Women have played a central role in animal advocacy since the 19th century. The animal advocacy movement – embracing animal rights, animal welfare, and anti-vivisectionism – has been disproportionately initiated and led by women, particularly in the United Kingdom. [1] Women are more likely to support animal rights than men.
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
The modern animal advocacy movement has a similar representation of women. They are not invariably in leadership positions: during the March for Animals in Washington, D.C., in 1990—the largest animal rights demonstration held until then in the United States—most of the participants were women, but most of the platform speakers were men. [62]
Animal advocacy may refer to: Animal protectionism, the view favors incremental change in pursuit of non-human animal interests; Animal rights, the idea that non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives; Animal rights movement, advocacy for the idea of animal rights; Animal welfare, support for the well-being of animals
Author of Animal Equality (2001) and Speciesism (2004) [59] Lawrence Finsen: United States Professor of philosophy at University of Redlands, co-author of The Animal Rights Movement in America (1994) [60] Dian Fossey: 1932–1985 United States Primatologist, conservationist, advocate for mountain gorillas [61] Roger Fouts: 1943 United States
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Edward Nicholson (1849–1912), head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, argued in Rights of an Animal (1879) that animals have the same natural right to life and liberty that human beings do, disregarding Descartes' mechanistic view—or what he called the "Neo-Cartesian snake"—that they lack consciousness. [66]
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