Piece of meat: study of representations and practices related to women and animals among industrial slaughterhouse workers

• Grant number: 14/14137-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2015
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri
• Grantee: Laura Sant Anna Luedy Oliveira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research herein proposed consists of the theoretical and empirical examination of a hypothesis raised by part of contemporary European and American literature on gender studies and animal studies. The hypothesis indicates that there is a connection between an anthropophilic speciesism (i.e., the social marking of individuals in accordance with a species together with the better evaluation of those marked as human) and a misogynistic sexism (i.e., the social marking of individuals in accordance with a gender, associated to a lesser evaluation of those marked as women). Furthermore, it suggests the devaluation of material corporeality plays a central part in this connection. Analysing the interaction of certain industrial slaughterhouse workers and individuals emically classified as women and non human animals, their impressions and representations on individuals so classified, we will attempted to gather information that aid answer this question: to what extent that hypothesis can be transposed to the designated population of this research and to its designated period of time (year of 2015)? Such data should be produced via semi-structured interviews and in situ observation, aside from the systematic examination of bibliographical data and documents on the issue. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

OLIVEIRA, Laura Sant Anna Luedy. Teratophobic machine: re-doing woman and animal in industrial slaughter. 2016. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.