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Food and Gender: Identity and Power

Food and Gender: Identity and Power

Counihan, Carole M.
Kaplan, Steven L.

Paperback

Series: New Directions in Therapeutic Intervention, Book 1

Medical ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 905702568X
ISBN13: 9789057025686
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 26 1998
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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