Carol Adams also proposes a quintessential relationship between men and meat. In a polemical and emotive account entitled The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990), she suggests that meat-eating is a symbol of patriarchy. ‘Meat-eating’, she says, ‘is the re-inscription of male power at every meal’ (1990:187). For Adams, the fate of women and animals is inextricably linked. They are both tyrannised and violated by men and her analysis equates the physical and sexual subjugation of women to the butchery of animals. Thus, feminism and vegetarianism are similar struggles against a common—male—oppressor.