The sexual politics of meat: a feminist-vegetarian critical theory

Cover -- Halftitle -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of The Sexual Politics of Meat -- Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary/ BLOOMSBURY Revelations Edition -- PART I The Patriarchal Texts of Meat -- CHAPTER 1 The Sexual Politics of Meat -- Male identification and meat eating -- Meat: For the man only -- The racial politics of meat -- Meat is king -- The male language of meat eating -- Gender inequality/species inequality -- "Vegetable": Symbol of feminine passivity? -- Meat is a symbol of patriarchy -- CHAPTER 2 The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women -- The absent referent -- Women and animals: Overlapping but absent referents -- Racism and the absent referent -- Sexual violence and meat eating -- The cycle of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption -- Consuming meat metaphorically -- Eliding fragmentation -- CHAPTER 3 Masked Violence, Muted Voices -- Language as mask -- False naming -- Fused oppressions -- Thinking literally -- Muted voices -- New naming -- CHAPTER 4 The Word Made Flesh -- The teachings of Pythagoras -- Vegetarian protest literature -- The vegetarian word made flesh -- Embattled conversations -- The story of meat -- PART II From the Belly of Zeus -- CHAPTER 5 Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals -- Defining dismemberment -- Joseph Ritson: Vegetarian-at-Arms -- Writing the literal -- writing vegetarianism -- Bearing the vegetarian word -- CHAPTER 6 Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster -- Closed circles and vegetarian consciousness -- Bearing the romantic vegetarian word -- Deciphering muted meanings -- CHAPTER 7 Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism -- The sexual politics of war -- The Great War: Modernizing vegetarianism