Parallel Lives of Women and Cows Meat Markets

Name: Parallel Lives of Women and Cows Meat Markets
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ISBN: 9780230115187

ISBN-10: 0230115187

ISBN-13: 9780230115187

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jean O'Malley Halley

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Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry withher ownaccount of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather’s cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence.

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/31/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 188
Size: 5.68" wide x 9.59" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Brief History Told in Carpets



Introduction


The Wire



Where the Cows Came From


Dreams of the Past



Where the Irish, Where My Family, Came From


Genealogy: My Family Tumbling Through Time


And My Gram



The Production of Animal Life: The Early American Cattle Business


Visiting Little America


This I Know



The Production of Girl Life and the Lives of Girls


A Special Occasion Dinner


On the Ability to See Rabbits: Stories Involving a Girl, Her Grandmothers, and Aging Vision


My Grandmother and the Cleaning Lady



The Lives of Cows



Slaughterhouses and the Death of a Cow



And Violence


My Not-Eating Sickness


To Speak of My Mother



There Is No Returning Home


Notes


Bibliography


Biographical statement


Index