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the sexual politics of meat: Adams - Coggle Diagram
the sexual politics of meat: Adams
stevens proposes that plant culture has been replaced with blood culture
'the recovery of culture'
meat eating + war = male dominance
some 20th century female qwriters imagine a Golden Age before war
feminist, pacifist and vegetarian
brigid brophy suggests that mens behaviour change is the root of war, oppression and killing of animals
brophy suggests that as long as men are in power, patriarchal violence and its oppressions of women will continue
naked women menstruate openly in her golden age and their blood is admired, but then men discover they too bleed when they fight
paradise is lost
Brophy and the loss of paradise
one of the men (stephron) confines the menstruating women into his house 'preferrably the kitchen where she will be the least attractive to other men'.
a world without war and blood culture
blood sacrifies are aassociated with male control
Brindel's, ariadne: a novel of Ancient Crete
ariadne is called by the author 'the last matriarch of crete' as she attempts to bring back worship using milk and honey but no blood.
pariarchal control simulaneously introduces the slaughter of animals and the worship of male Gods.
vegetarianism keeps feminist utopias intact. world without violence.
meat often has to do with coded expectations, patterns of responses
the vegetarian body: a body of writings and the idea that many vegetarians hold that we a physiciologiclly predisposed to vegetarianism.
vegetarians identify a connection between a healthy body and a diet that honours the moral relations between us and the other animals
humans have elements of our body much more similar to herbivores than of carnivores.
vegetarianism
'wars can be avoided if meat eating is eliminated' - charlotte perkins gilman.
each of the novels noted use the same literary technique for summoning the connections between vegetarianism and political violence
interruption: provides the shift by which vegetarianism cam be heard
occurs when the movement of the novel is suddenyly arrested and attention is given to vegetarianism.
blood and male control