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), Steven L. Kaplan (Editor), Counihan Carole M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 26.11.1998
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9789057025730
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-573-0
• Pages: 178
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 470 g
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies: women and girls, social hierarchy research, body image studies, gendered control of food production, symbolic meaning of meals, power dynamics in nutrition, cross-cultural anthropology, gendered food practices