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Epilogue: Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption

Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams is an activist and author of The Pornography of Meat, Living Among Meat Eaters, and many other books challenging a sexist, meat-eating world. She is a sought-after speaker throughout North America and Europe, and has been invited to more than 100 campuses to show "The Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show," which is always being updated to include contemporary cultural representations. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sexual Politics of Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The eating of animal flesh, an easy matter of course for most people unless made complex by ritual warnings, may yet turn out to be a problem of psycho-social evolution when humankind comes to review and reassess the inner and outer...

Race and Ethnicity

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Angela Meah

Angela Meah

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...Race © Angela Meah. “Race” is one of the most toxic words in the English language, associated throughout history with some of the most appalling...

Introduction

Michelle Szabo

Michelle Szabo is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shelley Koch

Shelley Koch is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory & Henry College, USA Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food, Masculinities, and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Why this book? The terms masculinity and home are not closely associated in the Western imagination. “Home” has traditionally been women’s realm and continues to be associated in many ways with women’s presence and feminine care and duty....

“The red gums were their own”: Food, Flesh, and the Female in Beloved

Bart Bishop

Bart Bishop

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What’s Eating You? : Food and Horror on Screen

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...It took more than a decade for Beloved, Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel of a former slave haunted by the child she killed, to be adapted for the screen. Thematically rich, the film explores complex issues of race, gender, sex, and motherhood....

The Social and Cultural Uses of Food

Carole M. Counihan

Carole M. Counihan

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...Food is what Marcel Mauss (1967) called a “total social fact.” It is a part of culture that is central, connected to many kinds of behavior, and infinitely meaningful. Food is a prism that absorbs a host of assorted cultural phenomena...

Iron

Susan Kent

Susan Kent

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Patricia Stuart-Macadam

Patricia Stuart-Macadam

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...Iron has played a critical role in the evolution of life. The ancient Greeks, believing iron to be a special gift sent to earth by one of the gods, named it sideros, or star (Liebel, Greenfield, and Pollitt 1979). As the second most common...

Sex

Angela Meah

Angela Meah

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book chapter

...The conflation of food and sex has increasingly figured as a dynamic within contemporary food media. Exploring this hyphenation within popular culture, Elspeth Probyn indicates that there is a sense that “sex on its own is no longer...

Skill

Angela Meah

Angela Meah

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...A skill, writes sociologist Richard Sennett (2008: 37–38), is something that is developed through trained practice and is embedded in routine. It is something that is often characterized by lengthy periods of apprenticeship, discipline...

Introduction

Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen is Professor of Law and the Robert D. Glass Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut, USA. Cohen is a Research Fellow at the CNRS, France. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Yoriko Otomo

Yoriko Otomo is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London, UK. She was recently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Global History, University of Oxford, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Making Milk : The Past, Present, and Future of Our Primary Food

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Milk is a relational substance produced by a typically female mammal for consumption by another, typically infant, mammal of the same species. It is one of the few foods produced for others. Self-breastfeeding remains by and large...

The Lactating Man

Mathilde Cohen

Mathilde Cohen is Professor of Law and the Robert D. Glass Research Scholar at the University of Connecticut, USA. Cohen is a Research Fellow at the CNRS, France. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Making Milk : The Past, Present, and Future of Our Primary Food

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...For helpful conversations and comments on earlier drafts, I am grateful to Amy DiBona, Elizabeth Emens, Beth Jones Connel, Yoriko Otomo, Joshua Perldeiner, and Darren Rosenblum. For excellent research assistance, I thank the University...