Where the Cows Came From -- Where the Irish, Where my Family Came From -- The Early American Cattle Business -- Women's Lives -- The Lives of Cows -- Slaughterhouses and the Death of a Cow -- Sexual Violence and Gender in My Childhood -- Eating Meat, Making Money
Summary
Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry withher ownaccount 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 experience of the formation of gender and sexuality through family violence
