The Sexual Politics of Meat; A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
New York: Continuum, 1990. Hardcover. 256 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Adams provides the beginnings of a feminist history of vegetarianism. The author focuses on the time period of 1790 to the present in England and the United States by exploring the meaning of vegetarianism in a key text, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and examining a group of works by 20th-century women writers that depict a connection between meat eating, male dominance, and war. The Sexual Politics of Meat argues that meat eaters unconsciously uphold a sexist, patriarchal culture - because meat eating is a measure of a virile culture and individual, our society equates vegetarianism with emasculation and femininity. Clean, crisp boards, interior, and dust wrapper. Covered in protective mylar. Black boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. Item #4088
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