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Zusatztext This is a marvelous and most valuable collection of Dr. Adams' seminal and most important essays. Perfect for many different undergraduate and graduate courses, and perfect for non-academics. Informationen zum Autor Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books including her germinal The Sexual Politics of Meat, as well as Burger, Protest Kitchen , The Pornography of Meat, and others. She is the co-editor of several anthologies on feminist theory and animals. She has been an activist against domestic violence, racism, and homelessness, and for reproductive justice and fair housing practices. A new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to her work in Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat . www.caroljadams.com Klappentext The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams's foundational and recent articles in the fields of critical studies, animal studies, media studies, vegan studies, ecofeminism and feminism, as well as relevant interviews and conversations in which Adams identifies key concepts and new developments in her decades-long work. This volume, a companion to The Sexual Politics of Meat (Bloomsbury Revelations), offers insight into a variety of urgent issues for our contemporary world: Why do batterers harm animals? What is the relationship between genocide and attitudes toward other animals? How do activism and theory feed each other? How do race, gender, and species categories interact in strengthening oppressive attitudes? In clear language, Adams identifies the often hidden aspects of cultural presumptions. The essays and conversations found here capture the decades-long energy and vision that continue to shape new ways of thinking about and responding to oppression. The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams’s foundational and recent writings as well as relevant interviews and conversations identifying key concepts and new developments in her work. Zusammenfassung The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams’s foundational and recent articles in the fields of critical studies, animal studies, media studies, vegan studies, ecofeminism and feminism, as well as relevant interviews and conversations in which Adams identifies key concepts and new developments in her decades-long work. This volume, a companion to The Sexual Politics of Meat (Bloomsbury Revelations), offers insight into a variety of urgent issues for our contemporary world: Why do batterers harm animals? What is the relationship between genocide and attitudes toward other animals? How do activism and theory feed each other? How do race, gender, and species categories interact in strengthening oppressive attitudes? In clear language, Adams identifies the often hidden aspects of cultural presumptions. The essays and conversations found here capture the decades-long energy and vision that continue to shape new ways of thinking about and responding to oppression. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations and Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. The War on Compassion (2005) 2. What Came Before The Sexual Politics of Meat: The Activist Roots of a Critical Theory (2011) 3. The Politics of Meat: The Antennae Magazine Interview with Annie Potts (2010) 4. Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals (1995) 5. Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat: Conversation with Matthew Calarco (2011) 6. "Mad Cow" Disease and the Animal Industrial Complex: An Ecofeminist Analysis (1997) 7. Why a Pig? A Reclining Nude Reveals the Intersections of Race, Sex, Slavery, and Species (2014) 8. The Critical Animal Studies Interview with Lindgren Johnson and Susan Thomas (2013) 9. Abortion and Animals: Keeping Women in the Equatio...
