In 1968, at the famous feminist protest against the Miss America Contest, two posters were held up next to each other. The first was a photo of a woman’s backside, shown cut up like a piece of meat, labeled “rump,” “round,” “loin,” “rib,” etc.
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.
Read MoreRecuperating “masculinity” with meat eating.
Since The Sexual Politics of Meat was published, I have noticed that many popular culture appeals to men (especially white, heterosexual men), seem to be rebuilding what feminism and veganism have threatened. In terms of the sexual politics of meat, we see several recuperative responses that seek to reinstate manhood, meat eating, and both interactively.
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