{"id":37931,"date":"2016-03-07T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37931"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:40:08","slug":"brock-prof-gets-funding-for-project-profiling-women-animal-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/03\/brock-prof-gets-funding-for-project-profiling-women-animal-rights-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof gets funding for project profiling women animal rights activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

While researching the history of animal rights, Brock visual arts professor Keri Cronin realized that women did much of the advocacy work in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also noticed that, quite often, there was little information about these women. For example, it was common for a woman\u2019s first name to be omitted from the record, with only her married name \u2013 Mrs. Smith, for example \u2013 being listed.<\/p>\n

That got Cronin and her friend, award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve noticed again and again is that it\u2019s always women on the ground, raising the money, holding the bake sales, protesting, and it\u2019s usually men at the head of the organizations,\u201d says Cronin. \u201cThis is true today and obviously in the 19th century, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought, \u2018all these women are doing amazing work and they\u2019re not getting credit, they\u2019re not being celebrated.\u2019 We want to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pictures<\/p>\n

So Cronin and McArthur created The Unbound Project: Women on the Front Lines of Animal Advocacy,<\/a> to \u201crecognize and celebrate women at the forefront of animal advocacy, in both a contemporary and historical context.\u201d<\/p>\n

To help make it happen, the UK-based cosmetics company Lush<\/a> recently granted the pair $20,000 from the company\u2019s North American Charitable Giving Program. Cronin and McArthur have also received funding from the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, the Culture & Animals Foundation, and A Well-Fed World.<\/p>\n

To put together the multi-media and book project, Cronin and McArthur are travelling around the world interviewing, photographing and filming some 200 women in a wide range of professions and walks of life.<\/p>\n

We want to talk about how people in all kinds of careers are making a difference and that activism doesn\u2019t just take one form.<\/span><\/p>\n

British primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, with a long history of conducting pioneering chimpanzee research in Tanzania, is among the higher-profile women being featured.<\/p>\n

But Cronin and McArthur\u2019s main focus is on \u201clocal grassroots women, unsung heroes who make the world a kinder, gentler place for animals,\u201d says Cronin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people think of activism, they imagine a certain thing: they imagine someone out there protesting or chaining themselves to a fence,\u201d says Cronin. \u201cWe actually want to change a bit of that story. We want to talk about how people in all kinds of careers are making a difference and that activism doesn\u2019t just take one form.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pictures<\/p>\n

Unbound has its roots in a long-term project, We Animals, that McArthur created to expose animal abuses around the world. As she did this, McArthur came across women working passionately and unceasingly to end such cruelty.<\/p>\n

\u201cSharing stories of inspiration and change not only gets people excited about taking part but gives them hope, something to hold onto, whereas my work on the brutal treatment of animals and factory farming can leave someone with a sense of paralysis,\u201d says McArthur.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project about women is going to do the opposite: it\u2019s going to say, \u2018here\u2019s the problem, here are the wonderful people working on this problem, here\u2019s how you can do this kind of thing as well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo is into the second year of their project, having already traveled to several continents and connecting with networks in North America and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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