
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory
Carol J. Adams(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic (Publisher)
4th Edition
Will be published approx. on 12. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
979-8-7651-2366-9 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1990, Carol J. Adams' revolutionary work has engaged, enraged, inspired and challenged readers with its exploration of the interplay between society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with eating animals and masculinity. This iconic book, referenced in rock songs, feminist artwork and even a Law and Order SVU episode, continues to change the lives of its readers today.
Published to celebrate the book's 35th anniversary, this Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new introduction that reflects on how recent events continue to prove the relevance of this influential work.
Published to celebrate the book's 35th anniversary, this Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new introduction that reflects on how recent events continue to prove the relevance of this influential work.
Reviews / Votes
The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as when Carol Adams first diagnosed them twenty years ago. -- J. M. Coetzee A bible of the vegan community * New York Times * Important and provocative ... Likely to inspire and enrage readers across the political spectrum. * Library Journal * Adams' original, provocative book makes a major contribution to the debate on animal rights. * Publishers Weekly * In the 20th-anniversary edition of this thought-provoking book, Adams explores the links between the slaughter of animals and violence directed against women, and ties the carnivorous diet to such patriarchal ideas as 'the end justifies the means.' * Toronto Globe and Mail * ...a richly polemical discussion of the relationships among patriarchal culture, the exploitation of women and of animals, and the politics of meat-eating. -- Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books * Adams' argument in The Sexual Politics of Meat is as elegant as it is disturbing ... It makes even the most cognizant among us feel a twinge of shame for not noticing, and reacting, sooner, and with due outrage. -- James McWilliams * Pacific Standard * The Sexual Politics of Meat couldn't be more timely, or more disturbing. * Environmental Ethics * There is likely no other work more closely associated with the topic of gender and animals than Adams' groundbreaking 1990 book, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. In this iconic work, Adams considers a wide range of materials, from myths, literature, historical, anthropological, and sociological studies to advertisements and visual culture to describe the undeniable associations between meat and masculinity, animal consumption and misogyny, and animal oppression and racism, primarily but not exclusively in Western cultures. * Chloe Taylor, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals *More details
Series
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-2366-9 (9798765123669)
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The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory
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The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory
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Carol J. Adams
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition
A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Book
12/2015
Bloomsbury Academic USA
€44.79
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Person
Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books including her germinal The Sexual Politics of Meat, as well as Burger, Protest Kitchen, The Pornography of Meat, and others. She is the co-editor of several anthologies on feminist theory and animals. She has been an activist against domestic violence, racism, and homelessness, and for reproductive justice and fair housing practices. A new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to her work in Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat. www.caroljadams.com
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction to the Thirty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements to the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary/Bloomsbury Revelations Edition
About the Artists
Part One: The Patriarchal Texts of Meat
Chapter 1
The Sexual Politics of Meat
Chapter 2
The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women
Chapter 3
Masked Violence, Muted Voices
Chapter 4
The Word Made Flesh
Part Two: From the Belly of Zeus
Chapter 5
Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals
Chapter 6
Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster
Chapter 7
Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism
Part Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in Women
Chapter 8
The Distortion of the Vegetarian Body
Chapter 9
For a Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory
Epilogue:
Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption
Notes
Select Bibliography
Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Bibliography
Index
Introduction to the Thirty-fifth Anniversary Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements to the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary/Bloomsbury Revelations Edition
About the Artists
Part One: The Patriarchal Texts of Meat
Chapter 1
The Sexual Politics of Meat
Chapter 2
The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women
Chapter 3
Masked Violence, Muted Voices
Chapter 4
The Word Made Flesh
Part Two: From the Belly of Zeus
Chapter 5
Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals
Chapter 6
Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster
Chapter 7
Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism
Part Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in Women
Chapter 8
The Distortion of the Vegetarian Body
Chapter 9
For a Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory
Epilogue:
Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption
Notes
Select Bibliography
Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Bibliography
Index