Laurie Penny: Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · body, cannibalism, capitalism, feminism, sexuality, women
“A feminist dissection of women’s bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism, whereby women are both consumers and consumed.
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. Touching on sexuality, prostitution, hunger, consumption, eating disorders, housework, transsexualism and the global trade in the signs and signifiers of femininity, Meat Market is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist dialectic, dissecting women’s bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism.”
Publisher ZerO Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, 2011
ISBN 1846945216, 9781846945212
79 pages
interview with the author, cont. (Maeve McKeown, New Left Project)
review (Abby O’Reilly, The Independent)
review (Zoe May Sullivan, The Oxonian Review)
author’s columns: The Guardian, New Statesman, The New Inquiry
Sheila Rowbotham: Women, Resistance and Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World (1972)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, feminism, history, politics, protest, resistance, revolution, social movements, socialism, women
“This is the first narrative history of feminism. Sheila Rowbotham, a young social historian, explores the relationship between feminism and social revolution, and the varied historical forms that the attempt to change the position of women has taken in the West and in revolutionary countries like China, the U.S.S.R., Cuba, Algeria, and Vietnam.” (from the back cover)
Originally published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London, 1972
This edition published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, New York, January 1974
ISBN 0394719549
288 pages
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Comment (0)Sadie Plant: Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · computing, cyberfeminism, feminism, history of computing, history of technology, machine, technology, women
“Zeros and Ones is an intelligent, provocative and accessible investigation of the intersection between women, feminism, machines and in particular, information technology. Arguing that the computer is rewriting the old conceptions of man and his world, it suggests that the telecoms revolution is also a sexual revolution which undermines the fundamental assumptions crucial to patriarchal culture. Historical, contemporary and future developments in telecommunications and in IT are interwoven with the past, present and future of feminism, women and sexual difference, and a wealth of connections, parallels and affinities between machines and women are uncovered as a result. Challenging the belief that man was ever in control of either his own agency, the planet, or his machines, this book argues it is seriously undermined by the new scientific paradigms emergent from theories of chaos, complexity and connectionism, all of which suggest that the old distinctions between man, woman, nature and technology need to be radically reassessed.”
Publisher Fourth Estate, 1997
ISBN 1857026985, 9781857026986
305 pages
Reviews: Nina Wakeford (New Scientist, 1997), Publishers Weekly (1997), McKenzie Wark (The Australian, 1998), Gyrus (Dreamflesh, 2008), Laura Lee (n.d.), Marta I. González García (Revista del Libros, 2001, ES).
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