Meat Market

Unsere Kultur ist besessen von der Kontrolle über den weiblichen Körper, sie quillt über von Darstellungen unwirklicher weiblicher Schönheit. Gleichzeitig weidet sich die Presse an magersüchtigen Starlets, schwangeren Unterschichts-Teenagern und feuchten Schoßgebeten. Laurie Penny, jung und zornig, stellt die versteckten Strukturen der Verdinglichung bloß, die solchen Marktstrategien zugrunde liegen.

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.