The Anthropology of Food and Body

Gender, Meaning and Power

Carole M. Counihan

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781317325383
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Sozialwissenschaften
• Categoría: Anthropologie

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.

Índice

• 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 Stories
• 9 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