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Author | Laurie Penny |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Feminism, Consumerism, Capitalism |
Published | Winchester |
Publisher | Zero Books |
Publication date | 2011 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print ( Paperback) |
Pages | 79 |
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, which they describe as their "little anti-capitalist-feminist pop-theory book". [1]
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. [2]
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" [4] whilst it was described in Peace News as "a great first book on feminism by a worthy successor to Wolf, Greer and Woolf". [5] In the Oxonian Review, the book was praised as a "a stirring call to political action" [6] while in Red Pepper Jennie O'Hara wrote that the Meat Market was "refreshing reading" in its rebuttal of anti-sex feminism. [7] Eleanor Davies of The Anti-capitalist Initiative believes that while the book shows "articulate, sharp observations", it is lacking due to Penny showing no solutions as we head forward. [8]
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Author | Laurie Penny |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Feminism, Consumerism, Capitalism |
Published | Winchester |
Publisher | Zero Books |
Publication date | 2011 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print ( Paperback) |
Pages | 79 |
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, which they describe as their "little anti-capitalist-feminist pop-theory book". [1]
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. [2]
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" [4] whilst it was described in Peace News as "a great first book on feminism by a worthy successor to Wolf, Greer and Woolf". [5] In the Oxonian Review, the book was praised as a "a stirring call to political action" [6] while in Red Pepper Jennie O'Hara wrote that the Meat Market was "refreshing reading" in its rebuttal of anti-sex feminism. [7] Eleanor Davies of The Anti-capitalist Initiative believes that while the book shows "articulate, sharp observations", it is lacking due to Penny showing no solutions as we head forward. [8]
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