Monday, June 14, 2004
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WatchDog discusses the ties between women’s liberation and animal liberation, with feminists leaders.

Guests:

 


Carol J. Adams is the author of the pioneering The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and the recently released, The Pornography of Meat. She has contributed entries on "vegetarianism" for numerous academic encyclopedias and dictionaries, and is particularly interested in the interconnections among forms of violence against human and nonhuman animals and the connection between woman-batterers and animal abusers.
http://www.triroc.com/caroladams/index.htm#politics
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826414486/dawnwatch
http://www.ivu.org/books/reviews/sexual-politics-of-meat.html

 

  
 


Catherine MacKinnon, is a feminist legal scholar and author of Pornography and Civil Rights. She specializes in sex equality issues under constitutional and international law and practices and consults nationally and internationally. MacKinnon has authored the chapter in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions by Oxford Univeristy press, entitled "Of Mice and Men."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195152174/dawnwatch.
http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=219
http://www.mediacoalition.org/reports/mackinnon.html
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/mack.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 


Gloria Steinem, is a journalist, activist, and a leader in the late-twentieth-century women's rights movement and co-founder of Ms. Magazine. The Ms. Foundation for Women was started in 1972 by Patricia T. Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, and Marlo Thomas to redistribute profits from Ms. Magazine to the grassroots women’s movement.
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/biographies/steinem/steinem_bio.html
http://www.ms.foundation.org/