Word: feminist
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Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat, drew fame in feminist-vegan-theory circles when she linked “species” oppression to gender oppression. She argues that the objectification of women and animals follow similar patterns: both the fairer sex and the four-legged set are sexualized, dehumanized and finally abused. FM caught up with her after she spoke at Quincy House and at the Law School last week...
Flynt’s assertion that the main accomplishment of the feminist movement “has been getting a bunch of ugly women to march” drew loud boos from the audience...
Meat-eating promotes the slaughter of animals and encourages male dominance, according to a feminist author and vegetarian advocate who spoke in Quincy House last night...
Adams is best known for her 1990 book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory, in which she stated that meat eating exacerbates a culture of male dominance...
Much has been made of the fact that Redd has lost around 60 pounds since last fall. (She first began a weight-loss push in her senior year, walking into Leizer’s spinning class in Martinsville in anticipation of appearing in Glamour.) After all, how purportedly feminist can a pageant be if you have to fit that societal mold of thinness? She scorns these criticisms, even listing the weight loss as her “greatest achievement” in the pageant magazine...