From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion

by Andrei S. Markovits and Katherine Crosby

Book Overview

In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways. In From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion, Andrei Markovits and Katherine Crosby describe a "discourse of compassion" that actually alters the way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472072463
• ISBN13: 9780472072460
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"