The Vegan Studies Project Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror |
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Author:
| Wright, Laura |
Foreword by:
| Adams, Carol |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4856-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Ranging widely across contemporary American society and culture, Laura Wright unpacks the loaded category of vegan identity. She examines the mainstream discourse surrounding and connecting animal rights to veganism. Her specific focus is on the construction and depiction of the vegan body as a contested site manifest in contemporary works of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and new media.
Ranging widely across contemporary American society and culture, Laura Wright unpacks the loaded category of vegan identity. She examines the mainstream discourse surrounding and connecting animal rights to veganism. Her specific focus is on the construction and depiction of the vegan body as a contested site manifest in contemporary works of literature, popular cultural representations, advertising, and new media.