“More of a Liability than an Asset”: Victorian Women’s Advocacy for Other Animals

What is it about?

Although the Nonhuman Animal rights movement in the West is frequently framed by activists and remembered by historians as gender-neutral, Donaldson’s Women against Cruelty (which examines meeting notes and campaigning documents reaching back to the movement’s founding in the early 19th century) demonstrates just the opposite. Women’s affinity for anti-speciesist activism within the context of a prevailing sexism which pitted all female pursuits as lesser-than would prove a difficult hurdle to surmount with regard to social movement resonance.

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