Meat Market

Meat Market

Laurie Penny

Language: English

Pages: 79

ISBN: 1846945216

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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.

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shame and discipline of the patriarchal capitalist conception of women forcibly enacted on the body in the cruellest and most insulting of ways. Personal/political Making rhetorical points which start with the phrase “when I was anorexic” is always fraught with difficulty. How can I talk about the real, messy human pain of disintegration and recovery without making myself sound attention-seeking? It’s almost impossible, so I want to make one thing perfectly clear: I am not proud of my

years, charting the emergence of a new generation of feminist agitators across the Western world and beyond. In a spirit of respectful enquiry, Meat Market devotes space to examining some of the analytical stumbling blocks of contemporary feminist thought, including a certain poverty of materialist analysis that stifles action and closes down debate. In particular, the questions of sex work and of the status of transsexual women within the movement are raised in the hope that feminism will soon

public when they aren’t getting paid to perform. In the storm of public moral approbation that followed, columnist Quentin Letts blamed feminism for spawning “an entire generation of loose-knickered lady louts”. “British girls have become fat-faced ‘ladettes’, goose pimples rising on the skin of their exposed thighs as they clack-clack-clack along the pavement en route to the weekend disco, destination bonk…Older generations would call these women ‘slappers’ – and they would be right.”2 Not

girl that we made popular: the Playmate of the Month. She is joyful, joking, never sophisticated… we are not interested in the mysterious, difficult woman.” The Bunny symbolises erotic capital as distinct from the lived experience of flesh. As a sign, it overwhelms the sexual encounters it has come to signify. A 2010 survey of unmarried Americans between 18 and 29 revealed that many have little knowledge of even common contraceptive methods such as condoms and the pill, but when we first saw

becomes increasingly synonymous with objectification, is work. And it is impossible to talk about sexuality as work without talking about sex work itself. One of the supreme ironies of Western gender production is that whilst the sexual sell is everywhere, the sale of sex itself still takes place in a shadowy underworld of social taboo, criminal activity and violence. One can market one’s sexuality and labour to increase erotic capital in the workplace, but prostitutes – the overwhelming

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