The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 264 pages
• Published by: Routledge
• Edition: 1st Edition July 20, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0415921937
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415921930
• Book Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Product Review
"This collection . . . should be of special interest to readers in women's studies, gender studies, and foods-and nutrition studies. . . . All levels." -- Choice - 06/00

The Anthropology of Food and Bodyoffers a bountiful, textured collection of essays, some previously published, some part of the author's ongoing work, some written expressly for this volume.
–Gastronomica

The Anthropology of Food and Bodyoffers a bountiful, textured collection of essays, some previously published, some part of the authors ongoing work, some written expressly for this volume.
–Gastronomica

This collectionshould be of special interest to readers in women's studies, gender studies, and foods-and nutrition studies.All levels.
–Choice

This collectionshould be of special interest to readers in womens studies, gender studies, and foods-and nutrition studies.All levels.
–Choice

Product Description
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. Carole M. Counihan takes a cross-cultural approach to ask compelling questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction, and gender differences around food.

Using ethnographic data from her fieldwork in Europe and the U.S., the author addresses issues around food, culture and gender such as: What powers do women gain and lose through their control over food preparation and distribution? What do food images in children's fantasy stories tell us about their sense of self? How do beliefs about eating and intercourse in different cultures reflect and affect gender ideology? How does the objectification of the female body subordinate women, and how can women challenge it? And how do pregnancy and birth affect women's body image and empowerment? 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.