Digesting Femininities

The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-04
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:301 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:213
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319865102

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Natalie Jovanovski is a postdoctoral research fellow at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Her research interests include feminist politics, theory and activism, food culture, and the sexual objectification of women.

Innehållsförteckning

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?.