Reading and Media Resources

A psychologist’s discussion of some of the internal mechanisms and messages people use to justify very different treatment of cognitively similar animals. 

Using concepts from moral and political philosophy, argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals, including, potentially, genetic engineering.

Incorporates indigenous law to advocate for folding animals into our existing system of property law to allow them to own land in trust, thereby creating a crucial tool to reduce biodiversity loss.

Exploration of the role women especially played in the early Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in England.

An analysis of the politics of gender in the animal rights movement based on in-depth interviews with women animal rights activists.

An anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing that depicts animals in authentic ways and gives them realistic voices.  

Drawing on interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, takes the position that modern zoos have transformed themselves from places created largely for...

Political theory is the grounding for this analysis of the obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate to human societies and institutions. The authors assert that, since different...

Tolstoy’s account of witnessing slaughter, and his conclusion that if a person “be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use...

This collection of essays from scholars in biology, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, political science, and philosophy, as well as from those doing fieldwork in their own countries...