ISBN:
0203381246
,
9057025736
,
9781280079504
,
9781135294519
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (178 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Food in history and culture v. 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Food and Gender
DDC:
363.8
Keywords:
Food Psychological aspects
;
Food habits
;
Food Social aspects
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Food and Gender: Identity and Power Carole M.Counihan; Food and Sexual Identity Among the Culina Donald K.Pollock; M̃en Are Taro ̃(They Cannot Be Rice): Political Aspects of Food Choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea Miriam Kahn; Hospitality, Women, and the Efficacy of Beer Kathryn S.March; Feeding Their Faith: Recipe Knowledge Among Thai Buddhist Women Penny Van Esterik; An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting Carole M.Counihan; Women as Gatekeepers Alex McIntosh and Mary Zey
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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