Carol J. Adams calls herself a "feminist vegetarian author." A vegan feminist and ecofeminist who teaches at the Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, she is principally know for her first book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. In this book she discusses, among other things, how, especially in times of shortage, women often give men the "best" food possibly, meat, at the expense of their own and their children's nutrition. She also discusses the connections between feminism and vegetarianism, and patriarchy and meat eating, historically and through the reading of literary texts. This describes what she calls the "structure of the absent referent," that, "which separates the meat eater from the animal and the animal from the end product."
She is the author of several other books including the highly useful Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook. This book advises one to ask if they are at peace with their own vegetarianism and provides communication skills for avoiding being slaughtered while dining with possibly hostile meat eating friends, family, and coworkers.
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