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Food and Gender: Identity and Power (Food and Nutrition in History and Culture)

By Carole Counihan , Steven L. Kaplan

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9789057025686, 905702568X, 0203381246, 9780203381243, 9780203390528
Open Library ID
OL20233815M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3381340 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
157\186
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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