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The Sexual Politics of Meat (20th Anniversary Edition): A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Carol J. Adams

3.91 AVERAGE

racooninurtrash's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

uhhsleep's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative medium-paced

For women in patriarchal culture, additional concerns arise as well. For we have been swallowed and we are the swallowers. We are the consumers and the consumed. We are the ones whose stomachs do not listen—having no ears—and we are the ones who seek to be heard from within the stomach that has no ears.
Eating animals acts as mirror and representation of patriarchal values. Meat eating is the re-inscription of male power at every meal. The patriarchal gaze sees not the fragmented flesh of dead animals but appetizing food. If our appetites re-inscribe patriarchy, our actions regarding eating animals will either reify or challenge this received culture. If meat is a symbol of male dominance then the presence of meat proclaims the disempowering of women.

This quote does a good job of summing up the book I think. I highly reccomend this book to all vegan feminists and femenists that arent vegan yet as well.
Adams does a great job tieing the consumption of animal's bodies to the patriarchal powerstructures in place, as well as the history of veganism within women's rights movements that is often glossed over.