The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets

By Jean O'Malley Halley

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230115187
• ISBN13: 9780230115187
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"