ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the symbol of bread its production, dissemination, and ingestion as a mode of dis-gendered political and cultural resistance in the "Hunger Games" trilogy. It demonstrates how bread serves as a link between but not a barrier to separate the masculine and the feminine, the domestic and the political, in examination of the treatment of bread throughout the "Hunger Games" trilogy. In the first book of Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy alone, there are over one hundred references to food: tough meats and creamy cheeses, juicy fruits and flavorful sauces. And while Collins's protagonist ranks the lamb stew as the best thing about her nation's Capitol, it's not a surprise that no food is given more attention, nor as much complicated clout, as bread. Collins doesn't invert gender norms throughout the "Hunger Games" trilogy so much as she complicates them.
