Ethics of Fur

Andrew Linzey is director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and has been a member of the faculty of theology in the University of Oxford for twenty-eight years.Clair Linzey is deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and professor of animal theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

• Introduction: Increasing Ethical Sensitivity around FurAndrew Linzey and Clair LinzeyPart I: Historical and Religious PerspectivesChapter 1: From the Pleistocene to COVID-19: A Brief History of FurAdam BridgenChapter 2: “Thou Shalt Not Use the Skins of Any Living Creature”: The Original Anti-Fur Activist, Thomas Tryon (1634–1703)Adam BridgenChapter 3: The New England Fur Trade: The Ethics of Puritan Dress in a Portrait of Lieutenant Governor William StoughtonLinda M. JohnsonChapter 4: The Nineteenth-Century Boycott against Feathered HatsRobyn HedermanChapter 5: Corpse “Contamination” as a Religious Approach to FurSidney BlankenshipChapter 6: Of Ermines, Cats, and “the Best-Dressed Pontiff Ever”: The Ethics of Fur-Trimmed Clerical GarbKurt RemelePart II: Ethical and Cultural PerspectivesChapter 7: A Case of Wrongful Use: An Ethical Analysis of the Use of Animal FurFrances M. C. RobinsonChapter 8: If a Fox Could Talk: Wittgenstein and the Calculated Silencing of Anima

This book is a timely and helpful contribution to the current conversations about the ethics of wearing and promoting fur products. The historical and ethical analysis help center the ongoing legal and political debates. This book will be useful for advocates, educators, students, politicians, legislators, and lawyers and should be read by anyone working in, or thinking about, this space.