speciesm

English

Noun

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.