The anthropology of food and body : gender, meaning, and power
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The anthropology of food and body : gender, meaning, and power
Routledge, 1999
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Bibliography: p. 225-244
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Description
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.
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: pb ISBN 9780415921930
Description
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.
Table of 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 France 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
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