The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror
- ISBN-10
- 0820348554
- ISBN-13
- 9780820348551
- Category
- Food habits
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- Laura Wright
Description
Ranging widely across contemporary American society and culture, Wright unpacks the loaded category of vegan identity. Her specific focus is on the construction and depiction of the vegan body--both male and female--as a contested site manifest in contemporaryworks of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and new media.
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