The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows Meat Markets
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account 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 expe
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The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows Meat Markets Jean O’Malley Halley
THE PARALLEL LIVES OF WOMEN AND COWS
Copyright © Jean O’Malley Halley, 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-11518-7 All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-29651-4 ISBN 978-1-137-07169-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137071699 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Halley, Jean O’Malley, 1967– The parallel lives of women and cows : meat markets / by Jean O’Malley Halley. p. cm.—(Critical studies in gender, sexuality, and culture) 1. Halley, Jean O’Malley, 1967– 2. Feminist theory. 3. Violence. 4. Women—Violence against. 5. Women—Identity. 6. Meat industry and trade. 7. Animal welfare. I. Title. HQ1190.H347 2012 305.4201—dc23
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For Andy and Katie, and our mother, who found the way out, and to Isaiah and Kathleen, beat of my heart, with endless love
Contents
ix
Acknowledgments A Brief History Told in Carpets Chapter 1 Introduction
1 5
The Wire Chapter 2 Where the Cows Came From Dreams of the Past Chapter 3 Where the Irish, Where My Family, Came From
19 23 31 33
Genealogy: My Family Tumbling Through Time
47
And My Gram
55
Chapter 4 The Production of Animal Life: The Early American Cattle Business Visiting Little America This I Know Chapter 5 The Production of Girl Life and the Lives of Girls
57 77 79 81
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CONT ENT S
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
93 97 105
Chapter 6 The Lives of Cows
113
Chapter 7 Slaughterhouses and the Death of a Cow
121
Chapter 8 And Violence
141 My Not-Eating Sickness
143
To Speak of My Mother
145
Chapter 9 There Is No Returning Home
153
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