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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-ForsonProduct Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139781478009955
eBay Product ID (ePID)11046596761
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Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameMeat!: a Transnational Analysis
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaGender Issues
AuthorBanu Subramaniam, Sushmita Chatterjee
SeriesAnima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
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Item Height229 mm
Item Weight567 g
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EditorBanu Subramaniam, Sushmita Chatterjee
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States