Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism
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| Author | Laurie Penny |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Feminism, Consumerism, Capitalism |
| Published | Winchester |
| Publisher | Zero Books |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 68 |
| ISBN | 9781846945212 |
| 305.42 | |
| Followed by | Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution |
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism is a 2011 book by British journalist, author and political activist Laurie Penny.
Background
The book is critical of 'the patriarchal capitalist machine', the sexualisation of women and gender stereotyping, and the capitalist economic system which entrenches discrimination towards women.[1]
Reception
In The Independent, Abby O'Reilly described the work as 'a nutritious thought-snack for emergent feminists and those approaching female cultural positioning from a socialist perspective'[2] whilst it was described in Peace News as 'a great first book on feminism by a worthy successor to Wolf, Greer and Woolf'.[3] In the Oxonian Review, the book was praised as a 'a stirring call to political action'[4] while in Red Pepper Jennie O'Hara wrote that the Meat Market was 'refreshing reading' in its rebuttal anti-sex feminism.[5]
References
- ↑ Bailey, Dan (2011-08-01). "Meat Market (Part One)". New Left Project. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ↑ "Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, By Laurie Penny | Reviews | Culture". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ↑ Virginia Moffatt. "Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism | Peace News". Peacenews.info. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ↑ "Chocolate, Snuggles, and Straight Hair". The Oxonian Review. 2011-05-30. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ↑ O’Hara, Jennie. "Sex-positive feminism". Red Pepper. Retrieved 16 May 2015.