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130th out of 142 books
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The Pornography of Meat
How does someone become a piece of meat?
Carol J. Adams answers this question in this provocative book by finding hidden meanings in the culture around us. From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics, images of women and animals are merged - with devastating consequences.
Like her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, whic...more
Carol J. Adams answers this question in this provocative book by finding hidden meanings in the culture around us. From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics, images of women and animals are merged - with devastating consequences.
Like her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, whic...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
October 14th 2004
by Bloomsbury Academic
(first published 2003)
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The pornography of meat is a very interesting book. It discusses the intersections between meat eating, selling, production, and the selling, shaping, and framing of women. In essence, it's about women and turning women into something less than human, which is continuously done in advertising and pop culture. While I might not agree with all the conclusions Adams reaches, I think the topic is fascinating, she presents the material in an interesting way, and the compiling that she did for this bo...more
May 16, 2013
Sean
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In 2004, I ordered this book for the public library in Texas where I was working at the time. This was in a conservative town full of meat-eaters. I am happy to report that it is still on the shelf (or at least still in the catalog!). Of course I am curious how many times it's been checked out since I left, but unfortunately I no longer have the power to obtain that information. Above all, I believe a public library exists to present multiple viewpoints on an array of topics, and when I arrived...more
For those of us who found Adams’s previous work, The Sexual Politics of Meat, a bit to dense and crouched in academia-speak, Pornography is a much more distilled and reader-friendly version of the groundbreaking ideas Adams advances.
This is a fine book (and not just because one of my submissions made it into its pages!) Adams gives voice and form to an issue many animal advocates have encountered--the linked oppression of animals and women in male culture. Even if this idea seems hard to believe...more
This is a fine book (and not just because one of my submissions made it into its pages!) Adams gives voice and form to an issue many animal advocates have encountered--the linked oppression of animals and women in male culture. Even if this idea seems hard to believe...more
This was really more of a 2.5 for me (mainly because of the disjointed writing). The images themselves tell a far clearer story than Adams does. I'd give her "slideshow" of images 3.5ish stars, although I really wish some of the image reproductions were better. I couldn't even read some of them, which seems to defeat the purpose.
I think Carol Adams brings up many provocative, valid points. However, it seems like this book was basically compiled from slide-show notes. I realize the book is based...more
I think Carol Adams brings up many provocative, valid points. However, it seems like this book was basically compiled from slide-show notes. I realize the book is based...more
Excellent. This book talks about two things very dear to my heart, and how interconnected they are: feminism and animal rights. (Of course, by necessity it discusses patriarchy, oppression, racism, etc. as well - ahhh, intersectionality at it's finest!) Adams discusses the vicious cycle between the use and misuse of animals and the oppression of women (i.e. women are animalized which lowers them to a lesser status, and animals are feminized which further lowers their status, and this cycle creat...more
I appreciated the ideas in this book but the writing was so disjointed as to often obscure the author's point. She leapt from idea to idea, often without linking them. From what I have read this is a result of it being based on a slideshow she presents on campus. It's a shame it's not better organised and argued because the points she makes are compelling. Nevertheless, I will track down a copy of her earlier book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, since I have heard great things about this title and...more
Feb 06, 2012
Bonsai
marked it as gave-up
As much as I'm interested in the substance of hard-core* feminism, I'm afraid I may not be receptive to its written form and style. This is the second time I haven't been able catch hold of enough context and narrative to find my footing. As I read, I quickly ending up feeling like someone speaking vehemently from a podium is fading in and out of earshot.
*Can you even say "hard-core" when you're talking about feminism?
*Can you even say "hard-core" when you're talking about feminism?
Anyone who knows me well already knows how influenced I've been by Adams' prior book "The Sexual Politics of Meat," because I talk about it all the time. [The ways our culture conflates masculinity with meat-eating as a practice of domination, the way mainstream advertising images feminize animals and animalize women and concurrently naturalize intersecting oppressions, and so forward.] This book is like a more lay-reader-friendly version of "The Sexual Politics of Meat." It contains many of the...more
The book that helped me go vegan. I read it while pregnant and every argument just clicked. Thank you Carol J. Adams!
Disturbing, eye-opening and incredibly interesting.
Lucid, logical and sublime.
the ideas in the book are excellent. the pictures in the book are even better. the writing itself is not as concise or organized as it should be. i imagine that when she toured with a lecture of this material, a lot of the book came directly from her presentations, which doesn't translate as well in writing.
still, an important addition to the work that highlights the intersection of the meat industry, marketing, and sexism.
it's worth buying the book just for the collection of pictures and illus...more
still, an important addition to the work that highlights the intersection of the meat industry, marketing, and sexism.
it's worth buying the book just for the collection of pictures and illus...more
Very interesting book about the objectification of animals and woman.
Look at the pictures.
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Carol J. Adams is a feminist-vegetarian theorist and author of books on eco-feminism and the links between species oppression and gender oppression.
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