Oppressive Liberation

Employing the work of previous scholars, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer exposes the frequency and causes of sexism and male privilege in social justice activism, then systematically exposes causes, pervasiveness, harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and male privilege in the animal activist movement. This book provides new data, not previously published, from an ongoing survey of sexism among animal activists. Voices in the survey and highly personal testimonials reveal the commonplace nature of sexism in animal activism, exposing both perpetrators and the crushing harms that result: The book offers an extensive array of possible directions for change.

Throughout the text, Kemmerer returns to the interface of sexism and speciesism; one full chapter explores philosophies of interconnection.  Oppressive Liberation also includes six essays from contributing authors (chapters 12-17) who expand the scope and depth of the book, providing different points of view from different places in the world, while also offering contextualized experiences with intersectional oppressions. This book focuses specifically on animal activism, but the explicit end-goal of Oppressive Liberation is total liberation—an end to all forms of privilege and marginalization.