Burger

ISBN-13: 9781501329463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

Carol J. Adams; Christopher Schaberg; Ian Bogost

Opis

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 the efforts, by investors such as Bill Gates, to seek to find 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 Burger is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzje

Burger draws on an accessible combination of history and pop culture to reconsider America's obsession with the molded-ground-beef sandwich . [It] explore[s] alternative modes of offering cultural critique, pushing against traditional divisions between academic and popular writing, and between history and critique, in search of new, more palatable forms of packaging the unsettling stories behind the Anglo-American diet. Humanimalia

Spis treści

1. Citizen Burger2. Hamburger3. Cow Burger4. Woman Burger5. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Burger and Other Modernist Hamburger Identity Crises6. Veggie Burger7. Moon Shot BurgerAfterword: SlippageAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex

O autorze

Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books including her germinal The Sexual Politics of Meat, as well as Burger, Protest Kitchen, The Pornography of Meat, and others. She is the co-editor of several anthologies on feminist theory and animals. She has been an activist against domestic violence, racism, and homelessness, and for reproductive justice and fair housing practices. A new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to her work in Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat. www.caroljadams.com