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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias places the relationship between food and gender in cross-cultural, cross-regional, and transnational contexts in order to identify how global politics, economy, and culture influence gender dynamics; and maintain or shift the existing gender hierarchy, inequality, and sexual behavior.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Ping Hung Li
Part I: Imagination of Culinary Nationalism
Chapter 1 Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese Discourse
Nathan Hopson
Chapter 2A Bite of the Gender Equality Discourse in China: Observations from Food
Guojun (Sawyer) He, Dandan Fang, and Jonathan Deschênes
Chapter 3 Young Men in Chef Uniforms and Suffering Mothers in Hanbok: Gendered Representation of National Cuisine in the Sikkaek Series
Maria Osetrova
Part II: Body and Embodiment
Chapter 4 The Body as Food: Gender, Eating, and Cannibalism in Yan Lianke's The Four Books
Shelley W. Chan
Chapter 5"Veganism Will Rise like Feminism": The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism
Su Young Choi
Chapter 6Embodying Carnal Appetites: Food and Sexuality in Li Ang's Mandarin Duck Aphrodisiacs
Chien-wei Pan
Part III: Performance of Masculinity and Femininity
Chapter 7Gender Politics in Food Escape: Korean Masculinity in TV Cooking Shows in South Korea
Jooyeon Rhee
Chapter 8Neoliberal Women's Agency and Time-Space Management in the Cook-and-Save Method, Tsukurioki
Chikako Nagayama
Chapter 9 Eating as a Way of Performing Gender: The Intersection of Food, Gender, and Human Capital in Taiwan
Ame¿lie Keyser-Verreault
Chapter 10 (Post-)traumatic Logic of Socialism, Hunger, and Masculinity in Zhang Xianliang's Mimosa (1984)
Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
Part IV: Transnational Practice of Food and Gender
Chapter 11Fashioning K-Food: New Gendered Space and Culture in South Korea
Eric Ping Hung Li, Somin Lee, and Matt Husain
Chapter 12Grace Chu: Chinese Cooking at the Crossroad of Ethnicization and Emplacement
Violetta Ravagnoli
Chapter 13 Social Change and Gendered Gift-Giving Rituals: A Historical Analysis of Valentine's Day in Japan
Yuko Minowa, Olga Khomenko, and Russell W. Belk
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Edited by Jooyeon Rhee; Chikako Nagayama and Eric Ping Hung Li - Contributions by Russell Belk; Shelley W. Chan; Su Young Choi; Jonathan Deschenes; Dandan Fang; Guojun (Sawyer) He; Nathan Hopson; Matt M. Husain; Ame¿lie Keyser-Verreault; Olga Khomenko; So
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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias places the relationship between food and gender in cross-cultural, cross-regional, and transnational contexts in order to identify how global politics, economy, and culture influence gender dynamics; and maintain or shift the existing gender hierarchy, inequality, and sexual behavior.
