The Sexual Politics of Meat

A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

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by Carol J. Adams

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published January 1991, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 0826405134

The author "compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness; and {seeks to} explore the literary, scientific, and social connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war. Drawing on such . . . sources as butchering texts, cookbooks, Victorian 'hygiene' manuals, and Alice Walker, theauthor . . . {argues in favor of} linking feminist and vegetarian theory." (Libr J) Index.