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Linking Sexism and Speciesism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jason Wyckoff
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Abstract

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Some feminists and animal advocates defend what I call the Linked Oppressions Thesis, according to which the oppression of women and the oppression of animals are linked causally, materially, normatively, and/or conceptually. Alasdair Cochrane offers objections to several versions of the Linked Oppressions Thesis and concludes that the Thesis should be rejected in all its forms. In this paper I defend the Thesis against Cochrane's objections as well as objections leveled by Beth Dixon, and argue that the failure of these objections illuminates the idea of linked oppressions as well as misunderstandings of the Linked Oppressions Thesis, and may provide guidance to philosophers theorizing animal rights from a feminist perspective.

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Hypatia , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , Fall 2014 , pp. 721 - 737
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Copyright © 2014 by Hypatia, Inc.

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