Food and Gender
Identity and Power
Steven L Kaplan editor Carole M Counihan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:26th Nov '98
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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.
ISBN: 9789057025730
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 430g
178 pages