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Author Counihan, Carole M

Title The Anthropology of Food and Body : Gender, Meaning and Power
Published Florence : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Stories9 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; Notes; Bibliography; RECIPES; Index
Summary 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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Subject Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies
Food habits -- Italy
Food habits -- United States
Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies
Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies
Women -- United States -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Women -- Social conditions
Food habits
Sex role
Ernährung
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Geschlechterrolle
Frau
Soziale Situation
Kulturvergleich
Levensmiddelen.
Sekserol.
Vrouwen.
Voedingsgewoonten.
Coutumes alimentaires -- Italie -- Anthropologie.
Coutumes alimentaires -- Etats-Unies -- Aspect anthropologique.
Coutumes alimentaires -- Études transculturelles.
Femmes -- Italie -- Conditions sociales.
Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales.
Italy
United States
Italien
USA
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317325390
1317325397