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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Author Carol J. Adams will give a lecture and slide show, "The Sexual Politics of Meat," at 7 p.m., Tuesday, October 1, in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The lecture is presented by the campus group Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (SETA) to mark Oct. 1 as World Vegetarian Day.
Adams is the author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" and several other books and more than 100 journal articles on the issues of vegetarianism, animal rights advocacy, domestic violence and sexual abuse. "The Sexual Politics of Meat" argues that the abuse of both women and animals is linked to long-standing patriarchal values, reinforced by pervasive images in contemporary popular culture.
Adams' other books include "The Inner Art of Vegetarianism," "Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals," and "Living Among Meat Eaters," and "Woman-Battering." She edited "Ecofeminism and the Sacred," "Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations," "Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic for the Treatment of Animals," and "Violence Against Women and Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook."
Adams earned a master of divinity degree at Yale Divinity School. She has directed the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry in New York, served as chair of the Housing Committee of the New York Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence, and taught theology at Southern Methodist University.
World Vegetarian Day was created in 1977 by the North American Vegetarian Society.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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