The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England

by Coral Lansbury

Genres: History

232 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Brian Griffith]

Lansbuty's research finds a powerful, dramatic rise of women-led movements for humanity to both animals and human workers, which helped to transform our moral common sense.

[Reet]

A super book! This work explores the relationship between pornography and vivisection. Feminism is something that pisses some men (those who are trying to make up for a lack in their physiology) off so much that they will hang on to animal torture as the "legal" way to get their rocks off. It makes sense that that is probably a reason that animal rights activists have such a hard time making any leeway in animal welfare.

There is a plethora of resources used in the making of this book that delighted me in the aspect of further reading.

[Kristin]

A bit older, but some interesting research points (love her rejection of Freudian readings of Victorian torture fic - which is a thing apparently?).