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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781846945212
- ISBN-10: 1846945216
- Publisher: Zer0 Books
- Publish Date: May 2011
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
- Page Count: 79
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