Carol J Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol J Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol J |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Richardson, TX |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
My favorite is the assumption of internalized racism: Black women, racial boundaries, and interracial relationships
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism
Deeply rooted structures of racism, ableism, misogyny, ageism, and transphobia hurt great numbers of people, exposing them to intolerance, economic exclusion, and physical harm around the globe. Billions of land animals suffer and die annually in concentrated feeding operations and slaughterhouses. Our planet and all who live here are in perilous straights as the climate changes. In the face of such grievous problems, people who want to find posi…
Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism
Feminism, Religion, Animals: The Interweaving of Life and Theory in the Creation of Feminist-Vegan Theory
The essay is a reflection on several key insights gained studying religion and pastoral care, and how these insights applied to the author’s experience as an activist and author, specifically, how the writings of Simone Weil and Edwin Muir helped to influence activism against racism and against domestic violence. Through these experiences, the author was able to ground her feminist-vegan theory in grassroots experiences of oppressions and their i…
Ecofeminism, Second Edition: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth
Anticipatory Care
Previous articleNext article FreeAnticipatory CareCarol J. AdamsCarol J. Adams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore5 April 2020I’ve been talking to my dogs more frequently these days because, as I tell them, they have no idea about the coronavirus pandemic or at least aren’t communicating thei…
Burger
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s B…
This, not that
Towards a Philosophy of Care through Caregiving
Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century. Published in the year of the book’s 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a s…
Ecofeminist Footings
Why a Pig?: A Reclining Nude Reveals the Intersections of Race, Sex, Slavery, and Species
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth
An updated edition of the landmark book on ecofeminism-now with a new section on climate-that will be a key resource for students and teachers studying animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics
Why feminist-vegan now
In this essay, I offer a reflection on the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat, introducing several of the main theoretical insights from the book, and examining whether and how they hold true twenty years after the book’s first publication. I examine the associations among notions of virility, masculinity, and meat eating, and explain the concept of the absent referent and how it functions in the institution of eating animals. I also expl…
The sexual politics of meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as when Carol Adams first diagnosed them twenty years ago." JM Coetzee" "For twenty years, The Sexual Politics of Meat has inspired, engaged, and challenged readers. Now , with a preface by Nellie McKay, an expansive new Introduction by the author, and 8 pages of images culled from popular culture, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a…
Chapter Three. Post-meateating
An Animal Manifesto Gender, Identity, and Vegan-Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Robert Morris and a Lost 18th-Century Vegetarian Book: An Introduction to Morris’s A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation
In 1746, Robert Morris, an 18th-century architectural innovator, authored A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation. It never entered the vegetarian canon, nor is it listed among his other published works. The bulk of the book is devoted to reprinting nine letters Morris had sent to a friend defending his abstinence from eating meat. He also responds to published arguments that the book of Genesis prohibits eating of blood but permits the eating …
A Feeling for the Language: Comments on Dunayer’s “in the Name of Science”
The author proposes that animal experimentation is one part of a master narrative involving presumptions about Western medical care, knowledge acquisition, and the object status of nonhuman animals. Drawing on Cohn’s analysis of the language of nuclear defense, the author applies her insights to Dunayer’s path-breaking work on speciesist language. She identifies profound connections between Cohn’s and Dunayer’s analyses, specifically “take the hi…
Feasting on Life
Many vegetarians say they do not have a spiritual practice. Many with a spiritual practice have no interest in vegetarianism. What is to be gained by this dialogue? Let us ask instead, what is lost when there is no exchange? Many vegetarians do not realize they have a spiritual practice when, in fact, they do have one. Many with a spiritual practice have not cultivated their ability to adopt vegetarianism. Vegetari-anism is like any other spiritu…
Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity
"Mad Cow" Disease and the Animal Industrial Complex: An Ecofeminist Analysis
A possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called "mad cow" disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal human equivalent, has been announced. Both of these diseases are forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies that attack the brain and destroy its nerve cells. That a disease identified with cows since 1985 could possibly be spread to human beings by eating meat from infected animals prompted a crisis for th…
Comment on George's "Should Feminists Be Vegetarians?"
Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century. Published in the year of the book’s 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a s…
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it demonstrates that such a focus does not distract from the…
Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals
In this essay, I will argue that contemporary ecofeminist discourse, while potentially adequate to deal with the issue of animals, is now inadequate because it fails to give consistent conceptual place to the domination of animals as a significant aspect of the domination of nature. I will examine six answers ecofeminists could give for not including animals explicitly in ecofeminist analyses and show how a persistent patriarchal ideology regardi…
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth
An updated edition of the landmark book on ecofeminism-now with a new section on climate-that will be a key resource for students and teachers studying animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics
Why feminist-vegan now
In this essay, I offer a reflection on the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat, introducing several of the main theoretical insights from the book, and examining whether and how they hold true twenty years after the book’s first publication. I examine the associations among notions of virility, masculinity, and meat eating, and explain the concept of the absent referent and how it functions in the institution of eating animals. I also expl…
An Animal Manifesto Gender, Identity, and Vegan-Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals
In this essay, I connect the sexual victimization of women, children, and pet animals with the violence manifest in a patriarchal culture. After discussing these connections, I demonstrate the importance of taking seriously these connections because of their implications for conceptual analysis, epistemology, and political, environmental, and applied philosophy. My goal is to broaden our understanding of issues relevant to creating peace and to p…
Burger
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s B…
"Mad Cow" Disease and the Animal Industrial Complex: An Ecofeminist Analysis
A possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called "mad cow" disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal human equivalent, has been announced. Both of these diseases are forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies that attack the brain and destroy its nerve cells. That a disease identified with cows since 1985 could possibly be spread to human beings by eating meat from infected animals prompted a crisis for th…
Anticipatory Care
Previous articleNext article FreeAnticipatory CareCarol J. AdamsCarol J. Adams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore5 April 2020I’ve been talking to my dogs more frequently these days because, as I tell them, they have no idea about the coronavirus pandemic or at least aren’t communicating thei…
Towards a Philosophy of Care through Caregiving
Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity
Fleisch und Blut im Feministischen Körper
Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals
In this essay, I will argue that contemporary ecofeminist discourse, while potentially adequate to deal with the issue of animals, is now inadequate because it fails to give consistent conceptual place to the domination of animals as a significant aspect of the domination of nature. I will examine six answers ecofeminists could give for not including animals explicitly in ecofeminist analyses and show how a persistent patriarchal ideology regardi…
Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals
In this essay, I connect the sexual victimization of women, children, and pet animals with the violence manifest in a patriarchal culture. After discussing these connections, I demonstrate the importance of taking seriously these connections because of their implications for conceptual analysis, epistemology, and political, environmental, and applied philosophy. My goal is to broaden our understanding of issues relevant to creating peace and to p…
Comment on George's "Should Feminists Be Vegetarians?"
Woman-Battering and Harm to Animals
Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
Animals and Women is a collection of pioneering essays that explores the theoretical connections between feminism and animal defense. Offering a feminist perspective on the status of animals, this unique volume argues persuasively that both the social construction and oppressions of women are inextricably connected to the ways in which we comprehend and abuse other species. Furthermore, it demonstrates that such a focus does not distract from the…
"Mad Cow" Disease and the Animal Industrial Complex: An Ecofeminist Analysis
A possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called "mad cow" disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal human equivalent, has been announced. Both of these diseases are forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies that attack the brain and destroy its nerve cells. That a disease identified with cows since 1985 could possibly be spread to human beings by eating meat from infected animals prompted a crisis for th…
Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity
A Feeling for the Language: Comments on Dunayer’s “in the Name of Science”
The author proposes that animal experimentation is one part of a master narrative involving presumptions about Western medical care, knowledge acquisition, and the object status of nonhuman animals. Drawing on Cohn’s analysis of the language of nuclear defense, the author applies her insights to Dunayer’s path-breaking work on speciesist language. She identifies profound connections between Cohn’s and Dunayer’s analyses, specifically “take the hi…
Feasting on Life
Many vegetarians say they do not have a spiritual practice. Many with a spiritual practice have no interest in vegetarianism. What is to be gained by this dialogue? Let us ask instead, what is lost when there is no exchange? Many vegetarians do not realize they have a spiritual practice when, in fact, they do have one. Many with a spiritual practice have not cultivated their ability to adopt vegetarianism. Vegetari-anism is like any other spiritu…
Robert Morris and a Lost 18th-Century Vegetarian Book: An Introduction to Morris’s A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation
In 1746, Robert Morris, an 18th-century architectural innovator, authored A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation. It never entered the vegetarian canon, nor is it listed among his other published works. The bulk of the book is devoted to reprinting nine letters Morris had sent to a friend defending his abstinence from eating meat. He also responds to published arguments that the book of Genesis prohibits eating of blood but permits the eating …
An Animal Manifesto Gender, Identity, and Vegan-Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter Three. Post-meateating
Why feminist-vegan now
In this essay, I offer a reflection on the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat, introducing several of the main theoretical insights from the book, and examining whether and how they hold true twenty years after the book’s first publication. I examine the associations among notions of virility, masculinity, and meat eating, and explain the concept of the absent referent and how it functions in the institution of eating animals. I also expl…
The sexual politics of meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as when Carol Adams first diagnosed them twenty years ago." JM Coetzee" "For twenty years, The Sexual Politics of Meat has inspired, engaged, and challenged readers. Now , with a preface by Nellie McKay, an expansive new Introduction by the author, and 8 pages of images culled from popular culture, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a…
Ecofeminist Footings
Why a Pig?: A Reclining Nude Reveals the Intersections of Race, Sex, Slavery, and Species
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth
An updated edition of the landmark book on ecofeminism-now with a new section on climate-that will be a key resource for students and teachers studying animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams’ inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society’s ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century. Published in the year of the book’s 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a s…
Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat
This, not that
Towards a Philosophy of Care through Caregiving
Burger
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger’s identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams’s B…
Anticipatory Care
Previous articleNext article FreeAnticipatory CareCarol J. AdamsCarol J. Adams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore5 April 2020I’ve been talking to my dogs more frequently these days because, as I tell them, they have no idea about the coronavirus pandemic or at least aren’t communicating thei…
Ecofeminism, Second Edition: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth
Geographies of human-animal interactions (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works)