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The first chapter introduces core ideas—sexism, speciesism, and male privilege—through an examination of the labor and crimes of pig farmer and serial killer Robert Pickton, then formally introduces sexism, speciesism, male privilege, the #MeToo Movement, #ARMeToo Movement, and word activism. With regard to the latter, “anymal” and “interfacing oppressions” are introduced as novel referents. At its closing, the introduction provides an overview of upcoming chapters.
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The term anymal is discussed below under the subheading, Novel Referent—“Anymal.” While not an adequate definition, for now, it will suffice to view this term as “nonhuman animal.”
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For more on documented connections between anymal abuse and human violence, see articles referenced in the text as well as Amy Fitzgerald, Animal Abuse and Family Violence: Researching the Interrelationships of Abusive Power and Frank Ascione and Randall Lockwood, Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence.
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Estimates are at 70–80%; this book employs the 80% figure.
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See, for example, “The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence” by Charlie Robinson and Victoria Clausen (Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI at https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/the-link-between-animal-cruelty-and-human-violence); “Animal Liberation Is a Feminist Issue” (The New Catalyst Quarterly 10, Winter 1988: 8–9), “The Killing Game: An Ecofeminist Critique of Hunting” (Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 23, no. 1, May 1996: 30–44), “If Women and Animals Were Heard” (Feminists for Animal Rights Semiannual Publication 5 (Summer/Fall 1990: 1, 10) by Marti Kheel, founder of Feminists for Animal Rights; Women and the Animal Rights Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2011) by Emily Gaarder; Animal Abuse and Family Violence: Researching the Interrelationships of Abusive Power (Mellen Press, 2005) by Amy Fitzgerald; “Tied Oppressions: An analysis of how Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment” (The Brock Review 12 (1), 51–68) and “Rational Emotions: Animal Rights Theory, Feminist Critiques and Activist Insights” (The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond, 307–319) by Carol Glasser; The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum, 1990) and The Pornography of Meat (Bloomsbury Academic, 2004) by Carol Adams; Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Duke University Press, 1995) by Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan; Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) by Lori Gruen; and Sister Species (University of Illinois Press, 2011) by Lisa Kemmerer.
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Kemmerer, L. (2023). Introduction: Speciesism, Sexism, and Male Privilege. In: Oppressive Liberation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15363-1_1
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