New Carol Adams book: The Pornography of Meat

[Rosemary]

I disagree with Adams' anti-porn views (and here she seems to suggest that rear entry sex is oppressive to women ?!?!) but I thought some people might be interested.

FROM ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE

TITLE: The Pornography of Meat

AUTHOR: Carol J. Adams
Email: cja@airmail.net
Website: www.caroljadams.com

PUBLISHER:
The Continuum Publishing Group
370 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10017, USA
Tel: 212-953-5858 x108
Fax: 212-953-5944
Website: www.continuumbooks.com
Email: Aja Becher at aja@continumm-books.com

PUBLISHE May 2003

ISBN #: 0-8264-1448-6

RETAIL PRICE: $24.95 USA

ABOUT THE BOOK:
How does someone become a piece of meat?
Examines the way popular culture, advertising, and pornography create a hostile environment for women and animals.

Carol J. Adams answers this question in this provocative book by finding hidden meanings in the culture around us. From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics, images of women and animals are merged - with devastating consequences.

Like her groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, which has been published in two editions, The Pornography of Meat uncovers startling connections:

* Why pornography demonstrates such a fascination with slaughtering and hunting

* Fixations on women's body parts expressed through ads for the breasts, legs, and thighs of chickens and turkeys

* Animals to be eaten as meat presented in seductive poses and sexy clothing

* Back-entry poses in pornography, implying that women - especially women of color - are like animals: insatiable

* How meat advertising draws on X-rated images

* Why at least one prominent animal-rights group is actually "in bed" with pornographers.

With 200 illustrations, this courageous and explosive book establishes why Adams's slide show, upon which The Pornography of Meat is based, is so popular on campuses across North America and is reviled by the groups she takes on
with insight and passion. From the rise of chain steakhouses to the language of the hunt, from the halls of government to the practice of artificial insemination on farm animals, The Pornography of Meat shows exactly how
harm to others parades as fun.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carol J. Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and Living among Meat Eaters in addition to six other books and four edited collections. She has been involved in the movement to stop domestic and sexual violence since the 1970's and has worked against racism and advocated for the homeless. She continues to tour campuses with her slide show. When not on the road, Adams lives in the heart of beef country outside Dallas.

[VeganUU]

Thanks for posting this, Rosemary. I disagree with Carol on a regular basis as well (especially about porn). I fear she is hopelessly stuck in feminism's second wave, which is unfortunate because a lot of her ideas are really excellent and thought-provoking. She spoke at Liberation Now! (a AR conference for students and younger folks) in Febraury, and I thought half the women in the room were going to attack her (she was speaking with Marti Kheel of Feminists for Animal Rights... such a depressing organization! They still have a woman-born-woman only policy for membership. Crazy!). Anyway, I argued with her in front of everybody (twice).

The more I read her work (I'm reading "Sexual Politics of Meat" right now), the more I appreciate her theories, but I wish she could make them more relevant to the experiences of my generation. She was saying some pretty oppressive things: men can't be feminist, transgender people simply reinforce gender stereotypes and shouldn't exist, all porn is bad all the time, etc. But, it spurred some good discussions amongst ourselves.

Interestingly enough, Carol is coming to speak on my campus in September. I've been organizing the event, and we're very excited to bring her here. I think her ideas have a lot of potential if we can move past the anti-sex, transphobic, gender binaries found therein. I wish there were more feminist vegans of all genders writing about gender oppression and animal oppression. It's definitely something that needs to be dealt with. With that said... buy Carol's book everybody! We need to support animal rights authors! Blessings, VeganUU