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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 Meat -- Chapter 1 -- The Sexual Politics of Meat -- Chapter 2 -- The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women -- Chapter 3 -- Masked Violence, Muted Voices -- Chapter 4 -- The Word Made Flesh -- Part Two: From the Belly of Zeus -- Chapter 5 -- Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals -- Chapter 6 -- Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster -- Chapter 7 -- Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism -- Part Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in Women -- Chapter 8 -- The Distortion of the Vegetarian Body -- Chapter 9 -- For a Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory -- Epilogue: -- Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption -- Afterword to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Twentieth Anniversary Bibliography -- Index.

What pornography? -- Real men -- Man up -- More than meat -- Body chopping -- "Eat me" -- Animalizing women -- Anthropornography -- Hamtastic -- Grab 'em by the p -- y -- Animals -- Master of nature -- Armed hunters -- The fish in water problem -- Venus and Lolita -- The patriarchal burger -- Another cow -- Hoofing it -- "I ate a pig" -- Average white girl -- "Makin' bacon" -- Resistance.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition -- The Mothers Who Disappeared -- Writing Neither Man nor Beast -- Representations -- Note -- Works Cited -- Preface -- Acknowledgments for the Bloomsbury Revelations edition -- Part One Examining the Arrogant Eye -- Chapter 1 Eating Animals -- The Case of the False Mass Term -- The Sexual Politics of Meat -- The Trojan Horse of the Nutrition Community -- Chapter 2 The Arrogant Eye and Animal Experimentation -- Problem 1: The Arrogant Eye: The Human Male Gaze -- Problem 2: Animal Experimentation -- Problem 3: The Dominant Reality -- Problem 4: Strangers and Other Victims -- Problem 5: The Combining of Categories -- Problem 6: Knowledge -- Problem 7: Agents and Sadism -- Problem 8: Consumption -- Problem 9: What's the Difference? -- Chapter 3 Abortion Rights and Animal Rights -- Premise 1: We Must Not Lose Sight of the Individual -- Premise 2: Self-determination for Women and the Other Animals -- Premise 3: The "Sentiency" of the Fetus and of Animals Are Not Similar -- Premise 4: Our Definition of Personhood Is Culture-Bound -- Premise 5: The Moral Dilemmas of Abortion Rights and Animal Rights Are Different -- Premise 6: Identification with the Vulnerable Requires Defining Vulnerability -- Premise 7: Abortion Rights Contributes to a Nonanthropocentric Ethic -- Premise 8: A Striking Similarity Exists in the Medical Profession's Role in Making Abortion Illegal and in Opposing Antivivisectionism -- Premise 9: Animal Defenders' Antiviolence Stance Should Align It with Women -- Premise 10: The Argument about Nonbeing Reveals the Subjective Male Stance -- Artist's Statement: Some Thoughts on slink -- Chapter 4 On Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity -- The Politics of Otherness -- The Animalizing Discourse of Racism

" 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 v., 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. "--

In this essay, I offer a reflection on the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat, introducing several of the main theoretical insights from the book, and examining whether and how they hold true twenty years after the book's first publication. I examine the associations among notions of virility, masculinity, and meat eating, and explain the concept of the absent referent and how it functions in the institution of eating animals. I also explore why images have proliferated that show the animalization of women or the feminization and sexualization of farmed animals, and propose that these are recuperative responses attempting to reinstate 'manhood' and meat eating. I propose that resistance to the decentering of the human being often is expressed through what I call 'retrograde humanism'. To conclude, I meditate on 'little old ladies in tennis shoes' — what it means for women that the animal movement so often wants to disown their work, yet needs them to do that work.

In this essay, I connect the sexual victimization of women, children, and pet animals with the violence manifest in a patriarchal culture. After discussing these connections, I demonstrate the importance of taking seriously these connections because of their implications for conceptual analysis, epistemology, and political, environmental, and applied philosophy. My goal is to broaden our understanding of issues relevant to creating peace and to provide some suggestions about what must be included in any adequate feminist peace politics.

In this essay, I will argue that contemporary ecofeminist discourse, while potentially adequate to deal with the issue of animals, is now inadequate because it fails to give consistent conceptual place to the domination of animals as a significant aspect of the domination of nature. I will examine six answers ecofeminists could give for not including animals explicitly in ecofeminist analyses and show how a persistent patriarchal ideology regarding animals as instruments has kept the experience of animals from being fully incorporated within ecofeminism.2

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments (first edition) -- Acknowledgments (second edition) -- Preface -- Note -- 1 Ecofeminist Footings Carol J. Adamsand Lori Gruen -- Ecofeminist philosophy: A brief overview -- Sentiment in patriarchal spaces -- The reign of reason -- Emerging feminist analysis of connections with animals -- Disappearing women -- Intertwined feminist activism: The 1970s and 1980s -- Making connections: Race, gender, class, species -- The Anthropocene -- Who tells the story of resistance? -- #MeToo and animal rights -- The problem of white supremacy and cultural appropriation in the animal movement -- Ethics of care -- Notes -- part one Affect -- Introduction -- 2 Caring to Dialogue: Feminism and the Treatment of Animals Josephine Donovan -- Feminist animal care theory -- Response to criticisms and elaborations of feminist animal care theory -- A standpoint theory for animals? -- A dialogical ethic of care for the treatment of animals -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 3 Compassion and Being Human Deane Curtin -- Introduction: Compassion vs. rights -- Arguments against compassion -- What makes morality possible? -- Turning empathy into compassion -- Defining compassion -- The Stoic objection to compassion -- Food as a compassionate practice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 4 Ecology Is a Sistah's Issue Too: The Politics of Emergent Afrocentric Ecowomanism Shamara Shantu Riley -- The problem of nature for Black womanism -- The politics of nature-culture dualism -- The role of the environmental-isms in providing the foundation for an Afrocentric womanist agenda -- Emergent Afrocentric ecowomanism: On the necessity of survival -- Emergent United States Afrocentric ecowomanist activism -- Emergent Afrocentric ecowomanist activism in Africa.