From advertisements to T-shirts, from billboards to menus, from matchbook covers to comics, images of women and animals are merged - with devastating consequences. Like her ground-breaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, which has been published in two editions, THE PORNOGRAPHY OF MEAT uncovers startling connections: Why pornography demonstrates such a fascination with slaughtering and hunting. Rear-entry poses in pornography, implying that women - especially women of colour - are like animals: insatiable. How meat advertising draws on X-rated images. Why at least one prominent animal-rights group is 'in bed' with pornographers. With 200 illustrations, this courageous and explosive book establishes why Adams's slide show, upon which THE PORNOGRAPHY OF MEAT is based, is so popular on her tour and is reviled by the groups she takes on with insight and passion. From the rise of chain steakhouses to the language of the hunt, from the halls of government to the practice of artificial insemination of farm animals, THE PORNOGRAPHY OF MEAT shows exactly how harm parades as fun to others.

Author Biography

Carol J. Adams is the author of the landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and The Pornography of Meat. Besides advancing scholarship and developing theory in the area of interlocking oppressions, Carol has created a series of books that address the vegetarian/vegan experience.