T“The Sexual Politics of Meat: A feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol Adams
“Patriarchal text of meat”
§ social, political, economic, linguistic context that animal flesh is associated with woman and flesh eating is associated with maleness
§ flesh eating = power
§ power = male
o The image of the “Cattle Queen” exemplifies how women are objectified and tangentially how animal bodies are used in the narrative of human life.
o How meat becomes political:
§ Animals become “absent referents” when the become “meat”
· Literally because they are dead
· Linguistically because they are no longer cows, chicken, pigs, sheep or even animals to become “beef”, “pork”, “poultry”, “mutton” (meat). Physical process of butchering animals is represented in language through objectification and fragmentation.
· Metaphorically when used to describe our (human) experiences through appropriation of theirs (animal experiences)
o The cycle of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption (47)
§ Objectification permits the oppressor to view another being as an object
§ The oppressor then violates this being by object-like treatment eg. The rape of women that denies women freedom by saying no or the butchering of animals from living breathing beings into dead objects
§ This process allows fragmentation, or brutal dismemberment, and finally consumption (visual consumption of women in media)
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