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Empty Cages Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights

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ISBN-10: 0742549933

ISBN-13: 9780742549937

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tom Regan, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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Described by Jeffrey Masson as the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of humane treatment favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty.
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Tom Regan is professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of "Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs"; "When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals"; "My Father's Guru: A Journey Through Spirituality & Disillusion"; "Final Analysis: The Making & Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst"; & "The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory", among other books. After receiving his undergraduate degree & a Ph.D. in Sanskrit & Indian Studies from Harvard University, he completed a full clinical training program in psychoanalysis at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute from 1970 to 1978. Masson served for one year as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in…    

Foreword
Prologue: The Cat
Norman Rockwell Americans
Who are You Animal Rights Advocates Anyway?
How Did You Get That Way?
Moral Rights: What They Are and Why They Matter
Human Rights
Animal Rights
Saying and Doing
What We Learn From Alice
The Metamorphoses
Turning Animals Into Food
Turning Animals Into Clothes
Turning Animals Into Performers
Turning Animals Into Competitors
Turning Animals Into Tools
Many Hands on Many Oars
"Yes..., But..."
Epilogue: The Cat
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author