When Species Me(a)t: Overlappıng Stories of the Victimized Animals and Women in Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 57, Issue 2
Abstract
By delving into the mistreatment and victimization of animals and women in a patriarchal and capitalist society, Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats (1998) depicts how inextricably connected oppression systems such as speciesism and sexism affect animals and women profoundly. To this end, while dealing with the interwoven lives of the two oppressed women, Jane Takagi-Little and Akiko Ueno, who experience the same patriarchal oppression in two different parts of the world, Ozeki sheds light on the inhumane treatments of animals in the feedlots and in the meat industry. Accordingly, the main objective of this article is to discuss the complex and interconnected relationship of the above mentioned oppression systems and to analyze how they affect animals and women tremendously as reflected in Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats.
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