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Animal, Vegetable, or Woman?

A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism

By: Kathryn Paxton George

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A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism

By: Kathryn Paxton George

Kathryn Paxton George challenges the view held by noted philosophers Tom Regan and Peter Singer and ecofeminists Carol Adams and Deane Curtin who assume the Principle of Equality to argue that no one should eat meat or animal products. She shows how these renowned individuals also violate the Principle of Equality, because they place women, children, adolescents, the elderly, and many others in a subordinate position. She reviews the principal arguments of these major ethical thinkers, offers a detailed examination of the nutritional literature on vegetarianism, and shows how this inconsistency arises and why it recurs in every major argument for ethical vegetarianism. Included is her own view about what we should eat, which she calls "feminist aesthetic semi-vegetarianism.

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State University of New York Press

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0791492060

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9780791492062

Animal, Vegetable, or Woman?

A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism

By: Kathryn Paxton George

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A Feminist Critique of Ethical Vegetarianism

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Challenges current claims that humans ought to be vegetarians because animals have moral standing.

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SUNY Press

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0791446875

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9780791446874

Nature's Civil War

Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

By: Kathryn J. Shively

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Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia

By: Kathryn J. Shively

In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by combating their deadliest enemy--nature. Meier explores how soldiers forged informal networks of health care based on prewar civilian experience and adopted a universal set of self-care habits, including boiling water, altering camp terrain, eradicating insects, supplementing their diets with fruits and vegetables, constructing protective shelters, and most controversially, straggling. In order to improve their health, soldiers periodically had to adjust their ideas of manliness, class values, and race to the circumstances at hand. While self-care often proved superior to relying upon the inchoate military medical infrastructure, commanders chastised soldiers for testing army discipline, ultimately redrawing the boundaries of informal health care.

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UNC Press Books

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1469610779

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9781469610771

Victorians Undone

Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By: Kathryn Hughes

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Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By: Kathryn Hughes

In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.

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JHU Press

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142142570X

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9781421425702

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