Meat Market - Female flesh under capitalism (Paperback)

Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood. Touching on sexuality, prostitution, hunger, consumption, eating disorders, housework, transsexualism and the global trade in the signs and signifiers of femininity, Meat Market is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist dialectic, dissecting women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism.

General

Imprint:	John Hunt Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	May 2011
Authors:	Laurie Penny
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	68
ISBN-13:	978-1-84694-521-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-84694-521-6
Barcode:	9781846945212

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