“[Adams] advocates an activism that reveals the truth about animal suffering and about women's lives."—Library Journal;” This book very usefully brings together Adams's thinking on animal defense as it has developed since the 1990 publication of her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat."—The Animals' Agenda; “Adams does for women and animals what the author of Our Bodies, Ourselves did for women's health. She proves insightfully that the 'unexamined meal is not worth eating.' "—Mary E. Hunt; “Adams's thinking is brilliant and original, and this volume belongs in every women's studies, theology, and environmental ethics collection."—Choice; “Carol Adams looks unsparingly at the way our culture has conditioned us to accept as normal the staggering cruelty inflicted daily on millions of animals. From theology to nutrition, from reproductive rights to pornographic images, she shows how assumed male superiority to women and other others pervades our lives."—Jane Tompkins
In Neither Beast Nor God, Gilbert Meilaender elaborates the philosophical, social, theological, and political implications of the question of dignity, and suggests a path through the thicket.
At a nonverbal level, contents of the meal disempower the vegetarian while making meat eaters more defensive. ... A lengthier, more eclectic, but equally compelling pamphlet is 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian by Pamela Rice (available ...
Breitman, Diana York Blaine, Dirk Boeckx, Benjamin Brenkert, Baird Callicott, Elaine Charkowski, Maynard Clark, Merritt Clifton, Glen Close, Nikki Craft, Lee Craig, Emily Culpepper, Karen Davis, David del Principe, Josephine Donovan, ...
Finally, this compelling collection suggests that the subordination and degradation of women is a prototype for other forms of abuse, and that to deny this connection is to participate in the continued mistreatment of animals and women.
Presents the West African expedition of Paul Du Chaillu who was the first European to confirm the existence of gorillas and discusses how Du Chaillu's discovery affected the evolution debate in Europe and America.
Arens, W The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Barer-Stein, Thelma. You Eat What You Are: A Study of Canadian Ethnic Food Traditions. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
A sumptuously magical, brand new take on a tale as old as time - read the Beast's side of the story at long last.
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan.
The book demonstrates that the church best serves the genuine good of the United States by training witnesses--martyr-citizens of God's Abrahamic empire.
A man conflicted. A town in peril. Jensen combines terror, history, and romance in his newest novel that brings the American frontier to dazzling life.