“Confined then in Cages like the Feathered Race”: Astell, Wollstonecraft, and the Politics of Domicilisation
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Early liberal thought is rarely kind to nonhuman animals, who are overwhelmingly presented as irrational, unthinking, and – well – brutish. No wonder, then, that contemporary animal political theorists have looked elsewhere to provide normative underpinnings for their theories of animal liberation and zoopolitics.
