What It Means to be Human
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ARE WOMEN ANIMALS?, by the award winning author, Joanna Bourke, explores the ways in which some people are conceived of as animals in order to set them outside humanity. Indeed, one of its central contentions is that in modernity, animals have been given...
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ARE WOMEN ANIMALS?, by the award winning author, Joanna Bourke, explores the ways in which some people are conceived of as animals in order to set them outside humanity. Indeed, one of its central contentions is that in modernity, animals have been given rights that are denied to certain humans. At an alarming speed in recent years, political discourses and scientific advances have blurred the human-animal border. Western societies are at war. In such times, biopolitical controls such as immigration control, ID cards, and torture practices erode the distinction between human-persons, the not-quite-humans, and the decidedly animalistic. At the same time, rapidly shifting scientific breakthroughs are also leading to more delicate questions of human identity. What will advances in stem-cell research mean for the human/animal border? The story is an historical one spanning Anglo-American cultures over two centuries and telling a story about the beast within the hearts, minds, and bodies of human persons.
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In 1872, a woman known only as An Earnest Englishwoman, published an open letter entitled Are women animals? She protested that women were not treated as fully human; their status was worse than that of animals. What does it mean to be human rather than animal? If the Earnest Englishwoman had turned her gaze to the previous century, her critique could have applied to slaves. Exploring the legacy of more than two centuries, this meticulously researched and illuminating book of history examines the ever shifting line drawn between the human and the animal.
Autoren-Porträt von Joanna Bourke
Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck College in London. Her book An Intimate History of Killing received critical acclaim, winning the Wolfson History Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joanna Bourke
- 2011, Maße: 16,5 x 4,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 1844086445
- ISBN-13: 9781844086443
Sprache:
Englisch
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