Friday, December 28, 2012

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


Counihan, Carole M. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. New York : Routledge, 1999. Print.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Food, Culture and Gender
2. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia
3. Food, Power, and Female Identity in Contemporary France
4. Food, Sex, and Reproduction: Penetration of Gender Boundaries
5. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female? A Review Essay
6. An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting: A Review Essay
7. Food Rules in the United States: Individualism, Control, and Hierarchy
8. Fantasy Food: Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children's Made-Up Stories
9. Food as Tie and Rupture: Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family
10. The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence, Italy
11. Body and Power in Women's Experiences of Reproduction in the United States
Notes
Bibliography
Recipes
Index






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