Leveraging Sexism and Speciseism to Save Birds: Grinnell and Lemon’s Conflicted Conservation Efforts in the Era of Women’s Suffrage

A frustrating reality of women's history in animal rights activism is that many of the greatest leaders of the movement were incredibly inconsistent in their ethical positioning. Francis Power Cobbe, for instance, was a committed meat eater, while Anna Kingsford was not in support of women's suffrage. Not all women in the movement, for that matter, were especially fond of Nonhuman Animals beyond…