21 May 2012 @ 03:27 pm
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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.
 
 
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cukursēne[info]saccharomyces on May 21st, 2012 - 03:54 pm
Adams argues that to enable the consumer to participate in their consumption, animals become ‘absent referents’, made invisible through a language which re-names their dead bodies (1990:40). This process of renaming, in which pigs become pork and cows become beef, serves to obscure the connection between flesh and food and renders an animal edible.
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