In the Hawkins-Carlson Room of the Rush Rhees Library on the UofR Campus is a Public Lecture by Carol J. Adams, author of The sexual politics of meat : a feminist-vegetarian critical theory.

The Sexual Politics of Meat explores a relationship between patriarchal values and meat-eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory. The book describes how a process of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption enables the oppression of animals so they are rendered being-less through technology, language, and cultural representation. This cycle links butchering with both the representation and reality of sexual violence in Western cultures that have a tendency to normalize sexual consumption.

[source: Rochester Indymedia website, 2016-Mar-7]