Meat market : female flesh under capitalism / Laurie Penny.
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TextPublication details: Winchester, UK ; Washington, USA : Zero Books, 2011.Description: vii, 68 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 9781846945212
- 1846945216
- 305.42 PEN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 305.42 PEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100676155 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. GERMAN EDITION - voted number 5 by German journalists in their list of top ten non-fiction books in May..
Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 An Anatomy of Modern Frigidity -- ch. 2 Taking Up Space -- ch. 3 Gender Capital -- ch. 4 Dirty Work.