Meat Market Female flesh under capitalism
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Meat Market Female flesh under capitalism by Laurie Penny
Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood. Touching on sexuality, prostitution, hunger, consumption, eating disorders, housework, transsexualism and the global trade in the signs and signifiers of femininity, Meat Market is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist dialectic, dissecting women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism.
Laurie Penny hones her every phrase to a razor's edgeShe is absolutely surgical in her anatomising of a mad world. MEAT MARKET is the kind of cut you learn from. (Warren Ellis, author of TRANSMETROPOLITAN, CROOKED LITTLE VEIN, RED)
Laurie Penny is a 23-year old journalist, blogger, feminist activist and reprobate from London with a deep loathing for unexamined orthodoxies. She writes the popular blog Penny Red http://pennyred.blogspot.com and lives in London UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846945212 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846945216 |
| Title | Meat Market Female flesh under capitalism |
| Author | Laurie Penny |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Collective Ink |
| Year published | 2011-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
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