Food and gender : identity and power / edited by Carole M. Counihan and Steven L. Kaplan.
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 relationshi...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands :
Harwood Academic Publishers,
1998.
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| Series: | Food in history and culture ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0203381246 9780203381243 |