 Cover of 2005 biography by Lori Williamson Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), was a British writer who is known today primarily as a pioneer animal rights activist. I love you azmat Image File history File links Cobbe. ...
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In 1875, Cobbe founded the Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection (SPALV), the world's first organization campaigning against animal experiments, and in 1898, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), two groups that remain active. Cobbe was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage and writer of editorial columns for London newspapers on suffrage, property rights for women, and opposition to vivisection. The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is a pressure group based near Highbury Corner in North London, United Kingdom that campaigns peacefully against vivisection. ...
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
Etymologically, vivisection refers to the dissection of, or any cutting or surgery upon, a living animal. ...
Cobbe's first work, published anonymously, was on The Intuitive Theory of Morals (1855). She travelled in the East, and published Cities of the Past (1864), Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (1869), Darwinism in Morals (1872), and Scientific Spirit of the Age (1888).
Under the influence of Theodore Parker, she became a Unitarian. Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 - May 10, 1860) was a reforming American minister of the Unitarian church, and a Transcendentalist. ...
Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...
A 320-page biography by the American author Lori Williamson was published in 2005.
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The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection is a pressure group based near Highbury Corner in North London, United Kingdom that campaigns peacefully against vivisection. ...
For the SI prefix, see Peta People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. ...
The logo of the Great Ape Project, which is campaigning for a Declaration on Great Apes. ...
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The animal liberation movement or animal rights movement is the worldwide movement of individual activists, academics, and groups who campaign or engage in direct action against the use of non-human animals in animal testing, the meat, dairy, and fur farming industries, and in entertainment and sports. ...
References - Rakow, Lana and Kramarae, Cheris (2003). The Revolution in Words: Women's Source Library. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415256895
External links - Victorian feminist, social reformer and anti-vivisectionist
- Her story of Domestic Violence
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