Women and Food

AvMarzia Mauriello

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The relationship between women and food has been examined from multiple perspectives across various disciplines, revealing a connection that is both profound and filled with social and cultural meaning. This relationship, significant and with deep historical roots, remains evident today, albeit in new and continuously changing forms.In this book, Marzia Mauriello explores this dynamic connection in depth, analyzing the four principal axes that structure the connection between women and food: production, preparation, distribution, and consumption. At each of these stages, the gendered dimensions of this relationship become apparent, intertwined with social and cultural differences and meanings. Mauriello presents ethnographic case studies from around the globe to highlight these complexities, incorporating a historical perspective that traces the dynamics of continuity and flux among these themes over time. Concise, multidisciplinary and accessible, it will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, history, gender, women's and food studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-10
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Polity Press
ISBN:9781509573301

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Marzia Mauriello is a junior researcher and lecturer in cultural anthropology at the University of Naples L'Orientale.

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IntroductionWomen and food: perspectives from anthropologyChapter 1 - Producing: women and the natural worlds1.1 Women and agriculture in contemporary times- Tradition versus Modernization- Gender differences and inequalities- Resistances1.2 The Rest and the West: some ethnographic insights on women and food production1.3 An ecological, gendered knowledge?Chapter 2 - Preparing: cooking as an embodied practice2.1 Becoming cooks as/is becoming women2.2 Cooks and Chefs between past and present- Cooking in the media world2.3 Wandering foods: women and cuisine in migrant contexts- Food and mobility- Women and foods on the moveChapter 3 - Distributing: feeding as an empowerment tool3.1 Women, food, and the "empowerment turn" (nurturing, space, and family)3.2 Women at the food store3.3 Once we were cooks 3.4 Women and food selling: street food cultureChapter 4 - Eating: feeding the self as a practice of gender distinction4.1 Tell me what (and how, when, where, how much, with whom) you eat...- Genders and food prohibitions- How much: scaling the body- Dieting and controlling4.2 Meat and the rest4.3 Being an ecological, vegetarian, and feminist womanConclusionAcknowledgementsReferences