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The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

10 best books like The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (Marjorie Spiegel): The Plague Dogs, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, Eating Animals, A Raisin in the Sun, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, Animal Liberation, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?

The Plague Dogs
AuthorRichard Adams
ISBN0345494024
Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.

After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation,...
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
AuthorSaul D. Alinsky
ISBN0679721134
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose...
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
AuthorAlison Bechdel
ISBN0618982507
A graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also...
Eating Animals
AuthorJonathan Safran Foer
ISBN0316069906
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others,...
A Raisin in the Sun
AuthorLorraine Hansberry
ISBN0375508333
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.

Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations...
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
AuthorSunaura Taylor
ISBN1620971283
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic

How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot...
Animal Liberation
AuthorPeter Singer
ISBN0060011572
The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation...
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
AuthorMelanie Joy
ISBN1573244619
This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote themselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for consumption.

Social...
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
AuthorCharles Patterson
ISBN1930051999
The book examines the origins of human supremacy, describes the emergence of industrialized slaughter of both animals and people in modern times, and concludes with profiles of Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust. ETERNAL TREBLINKA describes disturbing parallels...
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?
AuthorGary L. Francione
ISBN1566396921
Well, I guess have to give this book 5 stars because the information and philosophy contained in the book is so worthy and is an important addition to the subject of animal rights.

I almost didn’t give it 5 stars though because:

It was a bit of a slog to read, which is a shame because the...
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
AuthorDavid Graeber
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
AuthorDouglas Murray
ISBN1635579988
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.

In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
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