A rational approach to animal rights [electronic resource] : extensions in abolitionist theory / Corey Lee Wrenn.

Cover ; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Rationality and Nonhuman Animal Rights ; The abolitionist departure ; The reign of irrationality in Nonhuman Animal rights activism ; An appeal to reason ; Building a rational approach

2 Irrationalities in Welfarist Organizational Pathways A sociological perspective on Nonhuman Animal rights mobilization ; Social movement rationalization ; The irrationality of rational organization ; A new age of rationalization ; A working compromise in rationality

3 Rational Advocacy and the Logic of Persuasion Cognition and behavior change ; Analogizing single-issue campaigning ; Revisiting other popular tactics ; 4 Reconciling Gender and Rationality ; Individualism, feminism, and Nonhuman Animal rights advocacy

Patriarchy and the production of knowledge and reality Power, politics, and science ; A feminist-positive approach to rationality in Nonhuman Animal rights ; 5 Problematizing Post-Race Ideology ; The invisibility of race in Nonhuman Animal advocacy

Nonhuman Animal advocacy as a project of racism Authentic abolitionism ; 6 The Case for Secular Activism ; Religion and oppression ; Faith-based outreach ; Authority and resistance ; Atheism in the anthroparchy ; 7 Conclusion ; Minding the evidence ; An intersectional approach