ISBN:
9780230115187
Language:
English
Pages:
ca. 202 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Critical studies in gender, sexuality and culture
Series Statement:
Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows : Meat Markets
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Agriculture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry withher ownaccount of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence.
Abstract:
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Content; Acknowledgments; A Brief History Told in Carpets; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Wire; Chapter 2 Where the Cows Came From; Dreams of the Past; Chapter 3 Where the Irish, Where My Family, Came From; Genealogy: My Family Tumbling Through Time; And My Gram; Chapter 4 The Production of Animal Life: The Early American Cattle Business; Visiting Little America; This I Know; Chapter 5 The Production of Girl Life and the Lives of Girls; A Special Occasion Dinner; On the Ability to See Rabbits: Stories Involving a Girl, Her Grandmothers, and Aging Vision
Description / Table of Contents:
My Grandmother and the Cleaning LadyChapter 6 The Lives of Cows; Chapter 7 Slaughterhouses and the Death of a Cow; Chapter 8 And Violence; My Not-Eating Sickness; To Speak of My Mother; Chapter 9 There Is No Returning Home; Notes; Bibliography; Biographical statement; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URN:
10.1057/9781137071699
URL:
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