Food and Gender - Identity and Power

List of contents

Introduction to the Series, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction-Food and Gender: Identity and Power, 2 Food and Sexual Identity Among the Culina, 3 Men Are Taro (They Cannot Be Rice): Political Aspects of Food Choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea, 4 Hospitality, Women, and the Efficacy of Beer, 5 Feeding Their Faith: Recipe Knowledge Among Thai Buddhist Women, 6 An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting, 7 Women as Gatekeepers, 8 What Does It Mean To Be Fat, Thin, and Female in the United States?, Index, About the Contributors

About the author

Carole M. Counihan, Steven L. Kaplan

Product details

• Assisted by: Carole M. Counihan (Editor), Counihan Carole M. (Editor), Steven L. Kaplan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.1998
• EAN: 9789057025730
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-573-0
• No. of pages: 178
• Weight: 470 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies: women and girls