Patriarchal cultures are always finding new ways to uphold and reinforce the association between meat eating and masculinity. Sigh, this time it’s Valentine’s Day.
Read MoreThe Sexual Politics of Meat, Thanksgiving Style
What is the relationship between this image and some women who voted for Trump?
Read MoreCaging Motherhood
The Animal Legal Defense Fund invited me to write a guest commentary on the caging and exhibiting of pregnant sows, a subject truly deserving of feminist inquiry and resistance!
Read MoreThe Sexual Politics of Meat: Barbecues
This constant recapitulation of the visually consumable woman layered upon the literally consumable dead pig is a feminist issue. And so is the fetishism of the consumption of (and competition over preparing) a dead body whose defeat is inscribed throughout the event.
Read MoreThe Sexual Politics of Meat in a Wine Ad
I examine a wine ad that illustrates the cycle of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption that is a central part of patriarchal culture's commitment to the sexual politics of meat.
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