Pedaling Resistance - Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling

"Pedaling Resistance examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through a blend of memoir-style recollections and critical engagements with works of cultural and social analysis. Focusing on the intersections among cycling, veganism, animal suffering, environmentalism, class, race, and gender, this essay collection sheds light on themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover some of the larger social and political issues at stake in these activities"--

About the author

Carol J. Adams is a feminist scholar, activist, and animal-rights advocate. A distinguished commentator on the ethics of veganism, she earned her master of divinity at Yale University. Her numerous books include The Sexual Politics of Meat, Burger, and Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time.

Michael D. Wise, a longtime amateur bike racer, is an environmental historian and cultural geographer at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Native Foods, Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies, and many essays on the historical dimensions of food and animal-human relationships in North America.

Product details

• Authors: Carol J. (EDT)/ Wise Adams
• Assisted by: Carol J Adams (Editor), Carol J. Adams (Editor), Michael D Wise (Editor), Michael D. Wise (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781682262542
• ISBN: 978-1-68226-254-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Food and Foodways
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories