Digesting Femininities : The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

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...

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Main Author Jovanovski, Natalie (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319589251
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58925-1
Physical DescriptionXI, 213 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research
  • 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses
  • 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture
  • 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure
  • 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal
  • 7. Unveiling a Pathogenic Food Consciousness: Gender, Feminism, and the 'Neoliberal Subject' Conclusion. Hold the Femininities: Ordering a Genderless Food Consciousness?. .

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