Rights of the Defenseless - Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Legend of Mary Ellen Wilson
1. "The Child Is an Animal":
Domesticity, Discipline, and the Logic of Joint Protection
2. "A Relic of Barbarism":
Cruelty, Civilization, and Social Order
3. "The Rights of Whatever Can Suffer":
Reconciling Liberalism and Dependence
4. "The Dove Has Claws":
Sympathy and State Power
Conclusion: From Cruelty to Child Welfare
Notes
Index

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