ABSTRACT
Editors’ Note: This chapter engages the themes of body, discourse, emotion, race, and women. The chapter focuses on the notion of the ‘strong’ Black woman and the diverse ways in which Black women respond with food to this racialized feminine construct. In particular, the chapter portrays how overeating can become the outward expression of emotional states that have no direct mode of expression. Herein, the chapter offers a model for analyzing how the food-body relationships of ethnically and racially diverse women are shaped by particular cultural constructions of femininity, which hegemonic nutrition fails to engage.
