Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; Foreword by... (to come); Part One: The Patriarchal Texts of Meat; 1. The Sexual Politics of Meat; 2. The Rape of Animals, the Butchering of Women; 3. Masked Violence, Muted Voices; 4. The Word Made Flesh; Part Two: From the Belly of Zeus; 5. Dismembered Texts, Dismembered Animals; 6. Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster; 7. Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism; Part Three: Eat Rice Have Faith in Women; 8. The Distortion of the Vegetarian Body; 9. For a Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory; Epilogue: Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Carol Adams is the author of the groundbreaking Sexual Politics of Meat, and with her co-authors, The Bedside, Bathtub, and Armchair Companion to Frankenstein. She has toured as a speaker throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is completing a book on Jane Austen and relationships.

Reviews

"A bible of the vegan community" -the New York Times."

"A bible of the vegan community" -the New York Times."

Many cultures equate meat-eating with virility, and in some societies women offer men the ``best'' (i.e., bloodiest) food at the expense of their own nutritional needs. Building upon these observations, feminist activist Adams detects intimate links between the slaughter of animals and violence directed against women. She ties the prevalence of a carnivorous diet to patriarchal attitudes, such as the idea that the end justifies the means, and the objectification of others. In Frankenstein , Mary Shelley made her Creature a vegetarian, a point Adams relates to the Romantics' radical politics and to visionary novels by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dorothy Bryant and others. Adams, who teaches at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, sketches the alliance of vegetarianism and feminism in antivivisection activism, the suffrage movement and 20th-century pacifism. Her original, provocative book makes a major contribution to the debate on animal rights. (Jan.)