Digesting Femininities : The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

• Main Author: Jovanovski, Natalie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Feminist theory.; Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Religion and culture.; Human body > Social aspects.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319589251
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58925-1
• Physical Description: XI, 213 p. online resource.

This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological. Throughout, Natalie Jovanovski discusses key texts written by women, for women: b...