The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition

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. * Chloë Taylor, The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals *

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.

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