The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Bloomsbury Revelations edition)
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century. Published in the year of the book’s 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a substantial new afterword, including more than 20 new images and discussions of recent events that prove beyond doubt the continuing relevance of Adams’ revolutionary book.
Carol Adams has published more than 100 articles in journals, books, and magazines on the issues of vegetarianism and veganism, animal advocacy, domestic violence and sexual abuse. I am particularly interested in the interconnections among forms of violence against human and nonhuman animals.
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This one might be a bit too on the academic side for me, but her premise makes you stop and think. There is something indelibly connected the particularly American way of celebrating aggression, dominating, winning, overcoming. Sexual aggression is a lot closer to hunting and a culture of murder than it is to sexuality and fertility and life.