kaislea reviewed The Pornography Of Meat by Carol J. Adams
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1 star
Even though meat industry advertisement and degrading women might often go hand-in-hand, and the common ground of them is an interesting topic to study, I think this book wasn't the one to make the statements.
The Pornography of Meat was polemic and dramatic book, where all of the points, lists and "rules" were based on (horrific) example cases, not studies or numbers. The fast-paced text got really deep into the newly constructed theory before I even realized, and there was barely anything to explain or open it. I think the harshness and the size of the statements really would have needed a little something to back them up, especially when Adams started building a list of patriarchal systems winners and losers, and it was based on her feelings, "advertisements" and "everyone knows".
The emotional writing didn't really help to make the point any clearer either, in fact, the amount of …
Even though meat industry advertisement and degrading women might often go hand-in-hand, and the common ground of them is an interesting topic to study, I think this book wasn't the one to make the statements.
The Pornography of Meat was polemic and dramatic book, where all of the points, lists and "rules" were based on (horrific) example cases, not studies or numbers. The fast-paced text got really deep into the newly constructed theory before I even realized, and there was barely anything to explain or open it. I think the harshness and the size of the statements really would have needed a little something to back them up, especially when Adams started building a list of patriarchal systems winners and losers, and it was based on her feelings, "advertisements" and "everyone knows".
The emotional writing didn't really help to make the point any clearer either, in fact, the amount of disgusting details and shocking stories of violence felt like cheap stragedy. I had to skip a lot of pages because of nausea.
I unfortunately think this book might make vegetarianism and feminism look irrational and pseudo-intellectual, not something to take seriously. Adams is called vegetarian-feminist theorist, but there are no traces of theory to be found from her book.
The pictures were worth a star, though.