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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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?.