The parallel lives of women and cows
Subtitle: meat markets
By: by Jean O'Malley Halley
Series: Critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780230115187
Subjects: Violence against; Violence; Identity; Feminist theory; Meat industry and trade; Animal welfare; Women
Description: Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry withher ownaccount of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence.