Food and Gender: Identity and Power (Food In History And Culture Ser.: Vol. 1.)
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- Synopsis
- This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions: How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? Other issues discussed include men's and women's attitudes towards their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 173 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781135294502
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789057025686, 9781138175341, 9780203381243
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 12/20/22
- Copyrighted By:
- University of Cagliari, Italy
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Carole M. Counihan
- Edited by:
- Steven L. Kaplan