التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Meat Consumption and Its Discontents: Vegetarianism as Counter-Hegemonic Embodiment. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kwan, Samantha, Roth, Louise |
| المصدر: |
Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2004 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, p1-14, 14p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
VEGETARIANISM, FOOD consumption, POLITICAL doctrines, HEGEMONY, VEGETARIANS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| مستخلص: |
Qualitative data from a study of women?s appearance-related practices suggests that vegetarianism is a form of counter-hegemonic embodiment that is linked to and ideologies that resist mainstream systems of power, such as anti-consumerism, feminism, and rejection of heterosexism. In interviews with 85 women in the southwestern United States, we uncovered a strong relationship between political ideologies and practices, on one hand, and vegetarianism, on the other. Vegetarians typically reject mainstream systems of power such as consumerism, patriarchy, heterosexism, racism, and/or gender conformity. In their practices, vegetarian women also minimally enhance their appearances, thus rejecting the consumerist beauty imperative. In doing so, they adopt vegetarianism as part of a counter-hegemonic philosophy and a lifestyle they deem morally superior. While this relationship is intuitively unsurprising, the reasons for such a strong connection between vegetarian food consumption practices and political ideology warrant explanation. As we explore this relationship, we develop the concept of counter-hegemonic embodiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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