Should a true feminist be a vegetarian?
Discuss this question using the sources from this course, as well as your own independent research and thinking.In your answer you might like to consider the following statement: “Sexual violence and meat-eating, which appear to be discrete forms of violence, find a point of intersection in the absent referent.”
– Carol Adams (1995) The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, Continuum, p. 43
What does Adams mean? How strong is her argument?
You also might like to consider the following question in your response: What are the implications for feminism of associating women with vegetarianism, and with alternative health in general?
Suggested Reading from Judy: (see lecture script on the topic for more references, or find your own):
Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Continuum, 1995.
Adams, Carol J. “Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals” in Hypatia, 125-145, Spring, 1991.
Allen, Jeffner. “Women and Food” in the Journal of Social Philosophy, 15, 34-41, Summer, 1984.
Coward, Rosalind. The Whole Truth: The Myth of Alternative Health, Faber & Faber, 1989.
Fiddes, Nick. Meat, a Natural Symbol. London, Routledge, 1991. GT2868.F53
Inness, Sherrie A, ed. Cooking lessons: the politics of gender and food. Lanham, Md, Rowman& Littlefield 2001. GT2853.U5 .C66/2001
