One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science
Dig: A History Podcast
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The Connection Between Women's Rights and Anti-Vivisection
Women's rights activists believed that a man's treatment of animals was indicative of how he would treat women. Poets like Mary Howet and Maya Angelou used imagery of captured, wounded, or subjugated animals to describe women in their works. Like childbirth, they're making all these sacrifices, raising children, giving birth to children so that men can live.
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