Food and Gender : Identity and Power
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
113817534X
ISBN-13
9781138175341
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 19th, 2016
Print length
178 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Anthropology
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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.
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.
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