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Meat!: A Transnational Analysis
Contributor(s): Chatterjee, Sushmita (Editor), Subramaniam, Banu (Editor)
ISBN: 1478010959     ISBN-13: 9781478010951
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Cooking
Dewey: 641.36
LCCN: 2020024604
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 312 pages
 
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What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can "bloody" vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat's entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as "the chicken of the sea" to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism.

Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Irina Aristarkhova, Sushmita Chatterjee, Mel Y. Chen, Kim Q. Hall, Jennifer A. Hamilton, Anita Mannur, Elspeth Probyn, Parama Roy, Banu Subramaniam, Angela Willey, Psyche Williams-Forson