The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

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Routledge, 24 հոկ, 2018 թ. - 264 էջ

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

 

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Introduction
1
1 Food Culture and Gender
6
2 Bread as World Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia
25
3 Food Power and Female Identity in Contemporary Florence
43
4 Food Sex and Reproduction Penetration of Gender Boundaries
61
5 What Does It Mean to Be Fat Thin and Female? A Review Essay
76
6 An Anthropological View of Western Womens Prodigious Fasting A Review Essay
93
7 Food Rules in the United States Individualism Control and Hierarchy
113
9 Food as Tie and Rupture Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family
156
10 The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence Italy
178
11 Body and Power in Womens Experiences of Reproduction in the United States
195
Notes
215
Bibliography
225
RECIPES
245
Index
249
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8 Fantasy Food Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Childrens MadeUp Stories
129

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Carole M. Counihan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Millersville University. She is co-editor of Food and Culture (Routledge, 1997), and of Food and Gender: Identity and Power (1998).

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