On March 27, 2006, feminist-vegetarian author and activist Carol J. Adams presented The Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show at Montclair State University.

To learn more about Ms. Adam's books and activism visit her website.

• Following is a summary of the introduction given for The Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show on March 27  (taken, in part, from her website).

• Ms. Adam’s activism on antiviolence issues stems from the 1970s and 80s. After receiving her Master of Divinity from Yale University in 1976, she started a Hotline for Battered Women in New York. Ms. Adams has been the Executive Director for the Chautauqua County Rural Ministry in Dunkirk, New York, an advocacy and service agency addressing issues of poverty, racism, and sexism, served as Chair person of the Housing Committee of the New York Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence, coordinated a challenge to a local radio station license over racism and misrepresentation, and coordinated a suit against a city for racism in its housing practices.

• She has received awards from the Greater Dallas Coalition for Reproductive Freedom and Planned Parenthood, and provided keynote addresses at universities nationwide on topics such as “Living Among Meat Eaters” and “Violence Against Women, Children, and Animals: Understanding the Connections.” She is the author of more than fifteen books and one hundred articles on issues of vegetarianism and veganism, animal advocacy, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. Her books have received widespread, critical acclaim and are often cited and anthologized. Among them are “Ecofeminism and the Sacred (1994),” “Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals” (1995), “Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations (Duke UP, 1995, co-edited with Josephine Donovan), “The Pornography of Meat” (2003), “Living among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook” (2003), “Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!: An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets” (2004), and the ground-breaking “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory,” the book that established Ms. Adams as a pioneer in feminist-vegetarian theory, republished as a Tenth Anniversary Edition in 2000. In the book, the author compares myths about meat-eating with myths about manliness, and explores the connections between meat-eating, male dominance, and war.

• Ms. Adams is currently working on a four-book series of prayers for animals written from a child’s viewpoint, including Prayers for Animals, Continuum, 2004, and also on a book tentatively titled “Fleshed-Out Words: A Radical Feminist-Vegetarian Dictionary.

• Her extremely popular Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show has been shown at more than seventy-five universities and colleges. Drawing on images sent from around the world and ever evolving, the Slide Show is a challenging presentation that discusses the images of women and animals in contemporary culture. An ecofeminist analysis of the interconnected oppressions of sexism, racism and speciesism, the Slide Show answers the question: how does someone become a piece of meat?