Carol J. Adams
FEMINIST-VEGETARIAN AUTHOR

About Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams is the author of the pioneering The Sexual Politics of Meat:
A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and the recently released, The
Pornography of Meat. Carol's work is widely cited, anthologized and used as
a text in college courses in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Choice says of her work, "Adams's thinking is brilliant and original." Her
work is featured in an award-winning documentary, A Cow at My Table. A rock
group, Consolidated, devoted one track of their CD Friendly Fascism to The
Sexual Politics of Meat.

Besides advancing scholarship and developing theory in the area of
interlocking oppressions, Carol has created a series of books that address
the vegetarian/vegan experience: Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian
Survival Guide, Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! and The Inner Art of
Vegetarianism. Gene Bauston, cofounder and director of Farm Sanctuary said
of Living Among Meat Eaters : "Being a vegetarian or a vegan in a culture
dominated by meat eating and meat eaters is challenging. Carol Adams's
Living Among Meat Eaters is a much needed work that provides vegetarians and
vegans with valuable advice and the tools needed to foster understanding -
and with understanding comes compassion." Richard Carlson, author of Don't
Sweat the Small Stuff praises Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!, "A very
insightful, extremely well written book. This is a must read for anyone
facing this predicament."

Carol J. Adams has been an activist on antiviolence issues since the 1970s.
After receiving her Master of Divinity from Yale University Divinity School
in 1976, she and her partner started a Hotline for Battered Women in
Chautauqua County, New York, housing it in their home for the first year and
a half of its existence. During that time Carol was the Executive Director
of the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry, Inc., in Dunkirk, New York, an
advocacy and service not-for-profit agency addressing issues of poverty,
racism, and sexism. During the next decade, among other things, she served
as Chairperson of the Housing Committee of the New York Governor's
Commission on Domestic Violence (1984-87); coordinated a challenge to a
local radio station license because of its racism, misrepresentation, and
disregard of FCC rules (this resulted in the first revocation of a radio
station license brought about by a community group during the Reagan years),
co-ordinated a suit against a city for racism in its housing practices, and
began writing what became The Sexual Politics of Meat.

Since 1987, Carol has lived in the Dallas area.

Carol has published close to 100 articles in journals, books, and magazines
on the issues of vegetarianism and veganism, animal advocacy, domestic
violence and sexual abuse. In addition, she has contributed entries on
"vegetarianism" for numerous academic encyclopedias and dictionaries. She is
particularly interested in the interconnections among forms of violence
against human and nonhuman animals, writing, for instance, about why
woman-batterers harm animals and the implications of this (see Animals and
Women). Her article, "Bringing Peace Home: A Feminist Philosophical
Perspective on the Abuse of Women, Children, and Pet Animals," represents
her approach to these interconnections. (It's in her book Neither Man nor
Beast).

Carol has worked to bring back into print Howard Williams's
nineteenth-century classic text on vegetarianism, The Ethics of Diet. She
has contributed prefaces to important vegetarian, vegan, and animal defense
books such as Animal Ingredients A-Z, Joanne Stepaniak's The Vegan
Sourcebook, Richard Alan Young's Is God a Vegetarian? Steve Baker's
Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, Representation, and Joan Dunayer's
Animal Equality: Language and Liberation

Recently she received awards from The Greater Dallas Coalition for
Reproductive Freedom and Planned Parenthood of Dallas and North Texas, "for
her help in understanding the psychology of the radical right, for her
commitment to women and for her brave stance against the tyranny of
Operation Rescue."

Carol is a dynamic and provocative speaker, providing keynote addresses on
topics such as "Living Among Meat Eaters," "Violence Against Women,
Children, and Animals: Understanding the Connections," and her extremely
popular Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show.

She has been a speaker at various colleges and universities including Yale,
Harvard, Trinity College (Dublin), the University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Columbia, CalTech, the University of Pittsburgh, University of
Cincinnati, Smith College, University of Michigan, Skidmore College, Ohio
University, Kent State University, Denison College, Southern Methodist
University, Oberlin College, Cornell University, UCLA, and Virginia Tech.

Carol practices yoga and enjoys cooking vegan meals. Recently she has turned
her attention to writing prayers for animals and for people who love and
care for animals.

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Barry Kent MacKay
Canadian Representative
Animal Protection Institute
<www.api4animals.org>