Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals

This article examines a chicken cookbook that parodies a popular pornography novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”  Applying Carol J. Adams’ theory of intersecting oppression, I argue that the cookbook exemplifies the sexual objectification of women and Nonhuman Animals.  The trivialization of violence agai...

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Main Author: Corey Lee Wrenn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED Edizioni Universitarie 2014-06-01
Series:Relations
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Online Access:http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/27
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description This article examines a chicken cookbook that parodies a popular pornography novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”  Applying Carol J. Adams’ theory of intersecting oppression, I argue that the cookbook exemplifies the sexual objectification of women and Nonhuman Animals.  The trivialization of violence against women and other animals also exemplifies rape culture, speciesism, and misogyny.
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spelling doaj.art-6453dd485ed04322992ef3c8730705722022-12-21T21:43:20ZengLED Edizioni UniversitarieRelations2283-31962280-96432014-06-0121135139557Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other AnimalsCorey Lee Wrenn0Colorado State UniversityThis article examines a chicken cookbook that parodies a popular pornography novel “Fifty Shades of Grey.”  Applying Carol J. Adams’ theory of intersecting oppression, I argue that the cookbook exemplifies the sexual objectification of women and Nonhuman Animals.  The trivialization of violence against women and other animals also exemplifies rape culture, speciesism, and misogyny.http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/27Sexual objectificationSexual violenceHuman-Nonhuman Intersections
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Human-Nonhuman Intersections
title Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals
title_full Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals
title_fullStr Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals
title_full_unstemmed Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals
title_short Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals
title_sort fifty shades of oppression unexamined sexualized violence against women and other animals
topic Sexual objectification
Sexual violence
Human-Nonhuman Intersections
url http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/article/view/27
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