Barcellos, Gilsa Helena (author) and Ferreira, Simone Batista (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2008-02
Published:
Uruguay: World Rainforest Movement
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27801
Notes:
Posted online at http://http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Brazil/Book_Women.pdf, 59 pp., Impacts of eucalyptus monocultures on indigenous and Quilombola women in the State of Espirito Santo.
USA: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36367
Notes:
181 pages., Based on extensive conversations with women animal rights activists. Author identifies two competing frameworks within the animal rights movement. One names the oppression of anmals as the most crucual social justice issue of our times. This framework focuses on animal liberation. The second names the oppression of animals as part of a broad, intersecting web of inequality that encompasses gender, race, class and environmental concerns. Examins the predominance of women in animal rights activism.
