Meat Market

Unsere Kultur ist besessen von der Kontrolle über den weiblichen Körper, sie quillt über von Darstellungen unwirklicher weiblicher Schönheit. Gleichzeitig weidet sich die Presse an magersüchtigen Starlets, schwangeren Unterschichts-Teenagern und feuchten Schoßgebeten. Laurie Penny, jung und zornig, stellt die versteckten Strukturen der Verdinglichung bloß, die solchen Marktstrategien zugrunde liegen.

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A feminist dissection of women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism! whereby women are both consumers and consumed. Zusammenfassung A feminist dissection of women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism! whereby women are both consumers and consumed.

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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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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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A feminist dissection of women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism, whereby women are both consumers and consumed.