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ANIMAL EQUALITY
Language and Liberation
Author : Joan Dunayer
ISBN : 9780970647559
Publisher : Lantern Books
Pages : 272
Format : Hardback
Description : The first book on language and non-human oppression, Animal Equality shows that deceptive, biased words sustain injustice towards nonhuman animals. Speciesism, the failure to accord other animals equal consideration and respect, survives through lies.
Contrasting evolutionary reality with popular notions of human uniqueness and superiority, Animal Equality discredits the term lower animals. Compelling evidence of nonhuman thought and emotion debunks language that characterises other animals as unreasoning or insensitive.
Vivid exposes of hunting, sport-fishing, zoos, aquaprisons, vivisection and animal agriculture reveal the cruelty that misleading words legitimize and conceal. Animal Equality leaves no doubt: speciesist abuse relies on euphemism, double-speak, and other linguistic ploys. Offering style and vocabulary guidelines, Animal Equality proposes new language that will bring us closer to nonhuman liberation.
