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A review by kevin_shepherd
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism by Laurie Penny
5.0
"Feminism is construed as a threat to femininity when it is, in fact, a threat to gender as labor capital. Women of all ages who fear identifying with feminism cite the popular stereotype of feminists as hairy-legged, loose-breasted, man-hating or man-repelling lesbians... The stereotype has persisted for a reason: because it terrorizes women with the fear that radical politics will destroy their sexuality and gender identity." (pg 36)
Laurie Penny is a force of nature. She writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman and her articles are as academic as they are passionate. Meat Market is really a collection of four powerful essays addressing sexuality, fat, gender, and housework. This is not some call-to-arms rant-fest, this is post-graduate dissertational stuff. So don't just read this. Listen up. Pay attention. Take notes.*
"Feminism holds that prescribed gender roles are a tyranny that no-one - whether trans, cis, male, female or intersex - should be forced to conform to in order to prove their identity, their validity or their human worth." (pg 45)
*Personal Note: One of the reasons I read is to see the world from other points of view. Feminism is a subject on which my experience is limited and my previous notions were admittedly ill-informed. So, like philosophy and astrophysics and numerous other topics of personal deficiency, I challenged myself to become better educated. To date, my home library consists of over 200 books that deal directly or indirectly with feminism. I am a work in progress.
Laurie Penny is a force of nature. She writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman and her articles are as academic as they are passionate. Meat Market is really a collection of four powerful essays addressing sexuality, fat, gender, and housework. This is not some call-to-arms rant-fest, this is post-graduate dissertational stuff. So don't just read this. Listen up. Pay attention. Take notes.*
"Feminism holds that prescribed gender roles are a tyranny that no-one - whether trans, cis, male, female or intersex - should be forced to conform to in order to prove their identity, their validity or their human worth." (pg 45)
*Personal Note: One of the reasons I read is to see the world from other points of view. Feminism is a subject on which my experience is limited and my previous notions were admittedly ill-informed. So, like philosophy and astrophysics and numerous other topics of personal deficiency, I challenged myself to become better educated. To date, my home library consists of over 200 books that deal directly or indirectly with feminism. I am a work in progress.