The Pornography of Meat

by Adams, Carol J.

• ISBN13: 9780826414489
• ISBN10: 0826414486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group

Summary

Examines the way popular culture, advertising, and pornography create a hostile environment for women and animals. 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 bill-boards 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, which has been published in two editions, The Pornography of Meat uncovers startling connections: - Why pornography demonstrates such a fascination with slaughtering and hunting
- Fixations on women's body parts expressed through ads for the breasts, legs, and thighs of chickens and turkeys
- Animals to be eaten as meat presented in seductive poses and sexy clothing
- Back-entry poses in pornography, implying that women--especially women of color--are like animals: insatiable
- How meat advertising draws on X-rated images
- Why at least one prominent animal-rights gro

Author Biography

Carol J. Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and Living among Meat Eaters in addition to six other books (including Neither Man nor Beast) and four edited collections. Adams has been involved in the movement to stop domestic and sexual violence for many years, and has also worked against racism as well as advocated for the homeless. She continues to tour campuses with her slide show, which has gained even greater popularity with audiences over the years.

Table of Contents

What Pornography?	11	(19)
More than Meat	19	(8)
Man to Man	27	(12)
Yoked Oppressions	39	(10)
Beasts	49	(12)
Hamtastic	61	(12)
Body Chopping	73	(10)
Armed Hunters	83	(14)
Hookers	97	(6)
The Fish in Water Problem	103	(6)
Anthropornography	109	(8)
I Ate a Pig	117	(10)
Average White Girl	127	(8)
Hoofing It	135	(12)
The Female of the Species	147	(12)
Male Chauvinist Pig?	159	(20)
Epilogue	179	(2)
Acknowledgments	181	(7)
Citations	188