end Notes
Feathers, fashion and animal rights
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[1] See for example Proverbs 12:10 “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast”; Exodus 23: 12 “On the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest”; see also Deuteronomy 22: 6-7.
[2] Genesis 1:26-28.
[3] See, for example,Peter Singer, “The Animal Liberation Movement”, Old Hammond Press, Nottingham, 1985 http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/alm.html
[4] David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights, CUP, Cambridge, 2003, Ch 1.
[5] RJ Moore-Colyer, “Feathered Women and Persecuted Birds: The struggle against the Plumage Trade, c. 1860–1922”, Rural History, 11 at 57.
[6] Perkins, op cit at 19.
[7] Tim Birkhead and ors, Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin, Princeton University Press, 2014 at 374.
[8] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[9] Nicholas Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City, CUP, 2015 at 172.
[10] Day, op cit; Robin W Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation: A Study in Nature Protection, University of California Press 1975.
[11] Daly, op cit at 171.
[12] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 66.
[13] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 57.
[14] Defenders also raised an argument that special breeding farms were being set up overseas (such as in India) so that feathers could be collected humanely. This claim was substantially discredited.
[15] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 69.
[16] These attitudes were of course still far from any significant embrace of modern animal liberation ideas about animals’ equality with humans and their possession of enforceable “rights”.
[17] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[18] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[19] Barbara T Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World, University of Chicago Press, at 114 onwards.
[20] WH Hudson, “Feathered Women”, SPB Leaflet No 10.
[21] Letter, 10 July 1920 by HW Massingham, writing as ‘Wayfarer’; see also Moore-Colyer, op cit.
[22] Letter to The Times, 3 July 1905, George Bernard Shaw.
[23] R Abbott, “Birds Don’t Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and ‘The Plumage Bill‘”, in CJ Adams and J Donovan’s (eds) Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Duke University Press, 1995, cited in http://fashioningfeathers.info/murderous-millinery/
[24] Daly, op cit at 172.
[25] George Frederic Watts, Vol III His Writings, McMillan & Co, London, 1912.
[26] Cited in Keri Cronin, at http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/12/a-dedication 27 December 2012.
[27] “Arthur Mattingley, Mathoura and a millinery war”, Mathoura Historical Information Sheet; and The Emu, 1 October 1907.
[28] “The Story of the Egret”, Bird Notes and News, Vol III, 1909 at 94-5.
[29] [available online at https://archive.org/stream/birdnotesnews03roya#page/104/mode/2up
[30] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 71.
[31] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 71.
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[1] See for example Proverbs 12:10 “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast”; Exodus 23: 12 “On the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest”; see also Deuteronomy 22: 6-7.
[2] Genesis 1:26-28.
[3] See, for example,Peter Singer, “The Animal Liberation Movement”, Old Hammond Press, Nottingham, 1985 http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/alm.html
[4] David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights, CUP, Cambridge, 2003, Ch 1.
[5] RJ Moore-Colyer, “Feathered Women and Persecuted Birds: The struggle against the Plumage Trade, c. 1860–1922”, Rural History, 11 at 57.
[6] Perkins, op cit at 19.
[7] Tim Birkhead and ors, Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin, Princeton University Press, 2014 at 374.
[8] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[9] Nicholas Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City, CUP, 2015 at 172.
[10] Day, op cit; Robin W Doughty, Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation: A Study in Nature Protection, University of California Press 1975.
[11] Daly, op cit at 171.
[12] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 66.
[13] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 57.
[14] Defenders also raised an argument that special breeding farms were being set up overseas (such as in India) so that feathers could be collected humanely. This claim was substantially discredited.
[15] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 69.
[16] These attitudes were of course still far from any significant embrace of modern animal liberation ideas about animals’ equality with humans and their possession of enforceable “rights”.
[17] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[18] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 59.
[19] Barbara T Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World, University of Chicago Press, at 114 onwards.
[20] WH Hudson, “Feathered Women”, SPB Leaflet No 10.
[21] Letter, 10 July 1920 by HW Massingham, writing as ‘Wayfarer’; see also Moore-Colyer, op cit.
[22] Letter to The Times, 3 July 1905, George Bernard Shaw.
[23] R Abbott, “Birds Don’t Sing in Greek: Virginia Woolf and ‘The Plumage Bill‘”, in CJ Adams and J Donovan’s (eds) Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations. Duke University Press, 1995, cited in http://fashioningfeathers.info/murderous-millinery/
[24] Daly, op cit at 172.
[25] George Frederic Watts, Vol III His Writings, McMillan & Co, London, 1912.
[26] Cited in Keri Cronin, at http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/12/a-dedication 27 December 2012.
[27] “Arthur Mattingley, Mathoura and a millinery war”, Mathoura Historical Information Sheet; and The Emu, 1 October 1907.
[28] “The Story of the Egret”, Bird Notes and News, Vol III, 1909 at 94-5.
[29] [available online at https://archive.org/stream/birdnotesnews03roya#page/104/mode/2up
[30] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 71.
[31] Moore-Colyer, op cit at 71.
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