Reviews for Pornography of Meat

The average rating for Pornography of Meat based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-11 00:00:00 Todd Brekke It's extremely distasteful how strongly meat marketing is associated with the (human) female body, and it's also quite scary that not many people are talking about it. And it's also quite scary how the notion of meat eating is associated with manliness and that not doing so is considered weak and feminine. That's a whole world of messed up because notions of gender should not be applied to food nor should what we eat determine how strongly we represent a gender. But, unfortunately, they do. Here Adam's draws on her earlier work and considers the arguments in relation to imagery and the history of advertising.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-10-24 00:00:00 Michael Mayrose Anyone who knows me well already knows how influenced I've been by Adams' prior book "The Sexual Politics of Meat," because I talk about it all the time. [The ways our culture conflates masculinity with meat-eating as a practice of domination, the way mainstream advertising images feminize animals and animalize women and concurrently naturalize intersecting oppressions, and so forward.] This book is like a more lay-reader-friendly version of "The Sexual Politics of Meat." It contains many of the same ideas, but less academic language and a LOT more visual evidence in the form of images. I recommend this book INTENSELY.