| Description |
viii, 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Food, Culture, and Gender -- 2. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia -- 3. Food, Power, and Female: Identity in Contemporary Florence -- 4. Food, Sex, and Reproduction: Penetration of Gender Boundaries -- 5. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female? A Review Essay -- 6. An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting: A Review Essay -- 7. Food Rules in the United States: Individualism, Control, and Hierarchy -- 8. Fantasy Food: Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children's Made-Up Stories -- 9. Food as Tie and Rupture: Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family -- 10. The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence, Italy -- 11. Body and Power in Women's Experiences of Reproduction in the United States |
| Summary |
This book examines the way we understand our bodies, our genders, and ourselves through food.The author uses a cross-cultural approach to the study of food, in order to ask compelling questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction and gender differences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Italy -- Social conditions.
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Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Food habits -- Italy.
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Food habits -- United States.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
98049970 |
| ISBN |
0415921937 paperback |
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0415921929 cased |
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