Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams
Carol Adams with Snowball
Born	1951
Residence	Dallas, Texas
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Rochester (B.A.); Yale Divinity School (M.Div,)
Notable works	The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990); The Pornography of Meat (2004)
Religion	Presbytarianism
Spouse	Rev. Dr. Bruce Buchanan
Website
http://www.caroljadams.com

Carol J. Adams (1951-) is an American author and animal rights activist. She is the author of several books, including The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990) and The Pornography of Meat (2004), focusing in particular on what she argues are the links between the oppression of women and that of non-human animals.^[1] She has published around 100 articles or entries in journals, books, magazines, and encyclopedias on vegetarianism, animal rights, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Career 1.1.1 The Sexual Politics of Meat 1.2 Other works 2 Publications 3 References 4 Further reading 5 See also

Biography

Carol J. Adams was born in Texas in 1951. As an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, she was involved in bringing women's studies courses to the University's course catalog.^[2] She graduated from there with a B.A. in 1972,^[3] and obtained her M.Div from Yale Divinity School in 1976.^[4] She was executive director of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry, Inc., Dunkirk, New York from the late 1970s to 1987.^[2] Adams lives in Texas with her husband, the Reverend Dr. Bruce Buchanan,^[5] and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, where her husband is an associate pastor.

Adams recalls hearing of the death of her family pony in a hunting accident while at Yale, and then eating a hamburger that night. She concluded that it was hypocritical for her to mourn the death of her pony, yet have no problem eating a slaughtered cow. She became a vegetarian that night.^[6]

Career

The Sexual Politics of Meat

The Sexual Politics of Meat discusses how, especially in times of shortage, women often give men the meat they perceive to be the "best" food. She also discusses the connections between feminism and vegetarianism, and patriarchy and meat eating, historically and through the reading of literary texts. This describes what she calls the structure of the "absent referent", which in this context is that, "which separates the meat eater from the animal and the animal from the end product."^[7]

Other works

She is the author of several other books, including Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook. This book advises vegetarians to ask if they are at peace with their own vegetarianism and provides communication skills for avoiding abuse while dining with meat-eating friends, family, and coworkers who may be hostile. Her book The Pornography of Meat explores her thesis that United States culture conflates women and meat by analyzing its verbal and visual imagery.

Adams was one of several people who provided information used in the writing of the book Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism (2008) by Mark Hawthorne.

Publications

References

Further reading

Animal rights Main articles Animal rights Abolitionism Animal protectionism Nonhuman Speciesism Writers Carol Adams Jeremy Bentham Steven Best Stephen R. L. Clark Gary Francione Robert Garner Gill Langley Andrew Linzey Mary Midgley Tom Regan Bernard Rollin Richard D. Ryder Henry Salt Peter Singer Steven M. Wise Syed Ziaur Rahman Roger Yates Activists Greg Avery David Barbarash Mel Broughton Rod Coronado Jordan Halliday Barry Horne Shannon Keith Ronnie Lee Keith Mann Daniel G. McGowan Ingrid Newkirk Heather Nicholson Alex Pacheco Jill Phipps Craig Rosebraugh Alicia Silverstone Henry Spira Darren Thurston Andrew Tyler Jerry Vlasak Paul Watson Robin Webb Peter Daniel Young Groups List of animal rights groups Animal Aid Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Liberation Front Animal Liberation Press Office Animal Rights Militia BUAV Chinese Animal Protection Network Great Ape Project Hunt Saboteurs Association Justice Department NAVA PETA Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Sea Shepherd SPEAK SHAC Political parties List of animal advocacy parties Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada Animals Count British Animal Protection Party Party Against Bullfighting, Cruelty and Mistreatment of Animals Party for the Animals Tierschutzpartei Issues Abolitionism Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act Animal model Animals in sport Animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Anti-hunting Bile bear Blood sport Covance Ethics of eating meat Factory farming Fur trade Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences International trade in primates Meat industry Nafovanny Open rescue Operation Backfire Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Recreational fishing Seal hunting Veganarchism Veganism Vegetarianism zoo Cases Brown Dog affair Britches Cambridge University primates McLibel case Pit of despair Silver Spring monkeys Unnecessary Fuss Publications The Cove (2009) Behind the Mask (2006) Earthlings (2006) Peaceable Kingdom (2004) The Animals Film (1981) Animal Liberation (1975) Arkangel Bite Back No Compromise Categories Animal law Animal Liberation Front Animal rights movement Animal rights Animal testing Blood sports Livestock Poultry

See also

• Brown Dog affair
• Women and animal advocacy

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