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Description: Review by Cass R. Sunstein of 'Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals' by Steven M. Wise, a book advocating legal personhood for animals.
A lawyer argues that animals should have legal rights. Toward Legal Rights for Animals. A Merloyd Lawrence Book/Perseus Books. $25. n 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote ''A Vindication of the Rights of Women,'' now widely considered a classic discussion of both liberty and equality. That same year, Thomas Taylor responded with ''A Vindication of the Rights of Beasts,'' a parody designed to reveal the absurdity of Wollstonecraft's position by demonstrating that beasts, as well as women, have ''intrinsic and real dignity and worth.''
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