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The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century.Published in the year of the book's 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a substantial new afterword, including more than 20 new images and discussions of recent events that prove beyond doubt the continuing relevance of Adams' revolutionary book.
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Illustrations Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Preface to the Original Edition Foreword by Nellie McKay Acknowledgments Part One: The Patriarchal Texts of MeatChapter 1 The Sexual Politics of Meat Chapter 2 The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of WomenChapter 3 Masked Violence, Muted VoicesChapter 4 The Word Made FleshPart Two: From the Belly of ZeusChapter 5 Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals Chapter 6 Frankenstein's Vegetarian MonsterChapter 7 Feminism, the Great War, and Modern VegetarianismPart Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in WomenChapter 8 The Distortion of the Vegetarian BodyChapter 9 For a Feminist-Vegetarian Critical TheoryEpilogue: Destabilizing Patriarchal ConsumptionAfterword to the Bloomsbury Revelations editionNotesSelect BibliographyTwentieth Anniversary BibliographyIndex
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The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as when Carol Adams first diagnosed them twenty years ago. J. M. Coetzee
