ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|19 pages

Food, Culture, and Gender 1

chapter 2|18 pages

Bread as World

Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia 1

chapter 4|15 pages

Food, Sex, and Reproduction

Penetration of Gender Boundaries 1

chapter 5|17 pages

What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female?

A Review Essay 1

chapter 6|20 pages

An Anthropological View of Western Women’s Prodigious Fasting

A Review Essay 1

chapter 7|16 pages

Food Rules in the United States

Individualism, Control and Hierarchy 1

chapter 8|27 pages

Fantasy Food

Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children’s Made-Up Stories 1

chapter 9|22 pages

Food as Tie and Rupture

Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family 1