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<p>Fur has been sparking controversies ever since sumptuary laws marked it as a luxury item and as a sign of medieval class privilege. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary sources, Julia V. Emberley explains how a material good has become both a symbol of wealth and sexuality, and a symptom of class, gender, and imperial antagonisms. Emberley documents the 1980s confrontations between animal rights activists and native peoples that pitted Lynx, the organization responsible for the high-profile anti-fur ads in Great Britain, against Inuit and Dene societies' claims for a livelihood based on the selling and trading, consumption and production of animal fur. From colonial fur trading to twentieth-century globalization of the fur industry, Emberley analyzes the cultural, political, material, and libidinal values ascribed to fur.</p> <h3>Library Journal</h3> <p>In this well-written treatise, Emberley (women's and gender studies, Univ. of Northern British Columbia) views fur through widely disparate lenses. In the case of the animal rights movement, fur is seen as gratuitous violence and gross cruelty. To the Dene and Inuit people, it is a source of income and survival. Em

Author

Emberley, Julia V.

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781860642302

Subjects

Folklore, Management, Business