speciesm

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speciesm (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of speciesism
    • 2004, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti, Camden House Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:
      Despite his analysis of animal traits within the human psyche and his emphasis on diversity of species, [] and his plea for animal protection, Canetti seems to have felt that he was not able to overcome speciesm, the least recognized form of intellectual prejudice of his time.
    • 2019 November 14, Giulia Maria Chesi, Francesca Spiegel, editors, Classical Literature and Posthumanism, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      This has generated a reluctance to award ontological priority to any shared characteristics of human beings, and has triggered the radical criticism of speciesm and human exceptionalism []
    • 2024 February 2, Goran Đurđević, Suzana Marjanić, editors, Ecofeminism on the Edge, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN:
      [] but not all major currents of feminism could tolerate the inclusion of speciesm as a form of oppression in feminist considerations and thus declared the consideration of nonhuman animals within feminism essentialist.