Title Picturing the beast : animals, identity, and representation / Steve Baker

Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1993] ©1993

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Description x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm regular print Contents Preface: The signifying animal -- Pt. I. History and power -- 1. From massacred cats to lucky cows: history and mentalites -- 2. Eagles, lions and bulldogs: an iconography of power -- Pt. II. Hatred and pleasure -- 3. Mad dogs and half-human beasts: the rhetoric of animality -- 4. Of Maus and more: narrative, pleasure and talking animals -- Pt. III. Contradiction and change -- 5. Is it real or is it Disney?: unravelling the animal system -- 6. Escaping the ratking: strategic images for animal rights Analysis Animals Attitudes Of Humans Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Animal rights. Animals and civilization. Animals -- Symbolic aspects. Human-animal relationships. LC no. 92031521 ISBN 0719033772 (hardback) 0719033780 (paperback)

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