"The Sexual Politics of Meat" argues that what, or more precisely who, we eat is determined by the patriarchal politics of our culture, and that the meanings attached to meat eating are often clustered around virility. First published in 1990, "The Sexual Politics of Meat" is a landmark text in the ongoing debates about animal rights. In the two ...
In this practical volume, Carol J. Adams discusses summer barbecues, Thanksgiving dinner, even the simple business lunch, which can all be cause for issues-packed discussions on the vegetarian lifestyle. This book also offers more than 50 vegetarian recipes.
An examination of the historical, gender, race and class implications of meat culture, making the links between the practice of butchering/eating animals and the maintenance of male dominance. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by Carol Adams that answers the question she is most often asked: why did you write this book? Adams ...
Adam's "The Sexual Politics of Meat" introduced a new idea to the general public: that the eating of meat and the oppression of woman are intimately connected. According to Adams, the patriarchal mind constructs both women and animals as "other", and sees them only in terms of their usefulness. Insofar as women participate in meat-eating, Adams ...
This is a fantastically vast and witty companion to everything you need to know about Jane Austen, presented in a wonderfully fun and entertaining style which will appeal to all readers.Whether you've read Jane Austen once or read her yearly, or if you simply yearn to be Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy, this new "Bedside Companion" will make a perfect ...
Written by a new generation of recognized experts in pastoral care, these brief, foundational books offer practical advice to pastors on the most frequent dilemmas of pastoral care and counseling.
"Now we can join Gandhi and Tolstoy and nameless others who encountered this vigorous and invigorating book. Welcome to a company of radicals who believed we could and should stop eating non-human animals. They brought vegetarianism out of history and into the here and now." - from the introduction. Ethical vegetarianism is no recent development, ...
A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's description? Or Boris Karloff's iconic look from the 1931 film by James Whale? Whether as cliche or ...
A provocative exploration of how women are literally treated like 'pieces of meat' in contemporary culture. 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 groundbreaking The Sexual Politics of Meat, which has been published ...
This original, insightful, and often compassionate book empowers parents to respond with understanding and support to the surprising challenges, the worry, and changes that occur when their young person becomes a vegetarian or vegan.
Carol Adams explores the inner life of spiritual growth with the outer life of practical compassion and shows how the reasons for becoming a vegetarian are deeply wedded to spiritual practice.
People often feel deep emotions in response to the lives of animals. Learning of one animal's suffering or many animals' suffering may touch us very deeply. Prayer connects us with God and all of Creation. Through prayer, we are made one with all of God's creatures. Arranged across the arc of the day, this book includes original prayers by Carol J ...
Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.
"Animals and Women" is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we ...
Adams provides daily inspiring guidance to anyone who is or wants to become a vegetarian. Each day comes with a reflection, a brief elucidation, and a practice -- all three setting in motion the possibility of transformation. Invaluable for all those who are beginning on the path of compassion, healthiness, conscious living, and peaceful eating.
Journey to Gameland shows how you can take a favorite childhood book and turn it into a great board game. You'll learn how you can create fun hazards and prizes along the way and involve the whole family in role-playing, game-making, and literary sleuthing. This is a great book for parents and teachers to give kids to help them with reading, math, ...
Is God a Vegetarian? is one of the most complete explorations of vegetarianism in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Young, a linguistics and New Testament scholar, attempts to answer the question being asked with greater and greater frequency: "Are Christians morally obligated to be vegetarians?"Many people are confused about the apparent mixed ...
[ital]God Listens to Your Care[ital] is the third book in the [caps]God Listens[caps] series, a one-of-a-kind series of prayers for children (and adults too!) who love animals. Written from a child's viewpoint, the book contains 31 prayers that respond to the love and care that naturally exist between children and animals. Prayer topics include: a ...
For those who wish to enhance their own spirituality or vegetarianism, the Workbook provides a way to begin or continue the spiritual practices introduced in The Inner Art of Vegetarianism.
This collection of essays seek to extend and further explore the feminist ethic-of-care theory to the issue of animal well-being. Together the contributors suggest ways that theorists may move beyond the limited concept of "rights", establishing care as a basis for the ethical treatment of animals.
Contains eight contributions which extend feminist ethic-of-care theory to the issue of animal well-being. As a group, the essays aim to suggest ways that theorists can move beyond the notion of animal "rights" to establish care as a basis for the ethical treatment of animals. Annotation c. by Book
For use in daily prayer by churches, groups and individuals, this has been designed to make the Daily Office accessible and can be used with or without a minister. Morning, midday and evening Offices are printed in full for each day of the week, reducing the need to turn to other parts of the book. It also includes a section of family prayers. The ...
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