Confronting Cruelty
Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement
Biographical note
Lyle Munro, MA (ANU), Ph.D. (Monash) is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Research at Monash University in Australia. He has published widely on the animal rights movement including Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights (Praeger, 2001).
Readership
This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. It would also be useful to students of sociology and politics in general, and social movements in particular.
Reviews
'Only a handful of doctoral dissertations have been produced on the sociology of the animal movement (included Munro’s own on which this book is based),...Munro’s survey of the sociological literature on animal protection ... is timely, and his description and analysis of the tactics and strategy of the animal movement, contained particularly in chapter 6, is one of the best.'
Robert Garner, Society & Animals, 2005 no. 3.
Robert Garner, Society & Animals, 2005 no. 3.
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