Food and Gender: Identity and Power: 1 (New Directions in Therapeutic Intervention)

. Ed(s): Counihan, Carole M.; Kaplan, Steven Laurence

ISBN 10: 905702568X / ISBN 13: 9789057025686

Published by Routledge, 2004

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This volume examines the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It examines how each gender's relationship towards food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. Editor(s): Counihan, Carole M.; Kaplan, Steven Laurence. Num Pages: 180 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 278. . 2004. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Food and Gender: Identity and Power: 1 (New Directions in Therapeutic Intervention)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 905702568X
• ISBN 13: 9789057025686
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.