Digesting Femininities
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Digesting Femininities

The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

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Digesting Femininities

The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

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This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological. Throughout, Natalie Jovanovski discusses key texts written by women, for women: best-selling diet books, popular cookbooks produced by female food celebrities, and iconic feminist self-help texts. This is the first book to engage in a feminist analysis of body-policing food trends that focus specifically on the use of feminist rhetoric as a harmful aspect of food culture. There is a smorgasbord of seemingly diverse gender roles for women to choose from, but many encourage breaking gender norms and embracing a love of food while perpetuating old narratives of guilt and restraint. Digesting Femininities problematizes the gendering of food and eating and challenges the reader to imagine what a genderless and emancipatory food culture would look like.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319589251
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Digesting Femininities: Gendered Food Discourses and Body-Policing Narratives
  5. Chapter 2: Beyond Body-Centrism: Making Food Discourses the Main Course of Feminist Analysis
  6. Chapter 3: A SmörgÄsbord of Food Femininities: How Gender Politics and Food Culture Combine
  7. Chapter 4: Femininities-Lite: Diet Culture, Feminism and Body Policing
  8. Chapter 5: Cooking Up Femininities: Motherhood, Hedonism and Body Policing in Popular Cookbooks
  9. Chapter 6: Flavours of Feminism: Iconic Feminist Voices and Body-Policing Narratives
  10. Chapter 7: Unveiling a Pathogenic Food Consciousness: Gender, Patriarchy and the Neoliberal Subject
  11. Chapter 8: Hold the Femininities: Ordering a Radical Feminist Food Consciousness
  12. Index