7.6 /10 1 Votes
Country United Kingdom Publisher Zero Books Media type Print Originally published 2011 Page count 68 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 2011 Pages 68 ISBN 9781846945212 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution Subjects Feminism, Consumerism, Capitalism Similar Laurie Penny books, Woman books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism is a 2011 book by British journalist, author and political activist Laurie Penny.
Contents
Background
The book is critical of 'the patriarchal capitalist machine', the sexualisation of women and gender stereotyping, and the capitalist economic system which entrenches discrimination towards women.
Reception
In The Independent, Abby O'Reilly described the work as 'a nutritious thought-snack for emergent feminists and those approaching female cultural positioning from a socialist perspective' whilst it was described in Peace News as 'a great first book on feminism by a worthy successor to Wolf, Greer and Woolf'. In the Oxonian Review, the book was praised as a 'a stirring call to political action' while in Red Pepper Jennie O'Hara wrote that the Meat Market was 'refreshing reading' in its rebuttal anti-sex feminism.