The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

Counihan, Carole M.

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

EAN

9780415921930

Publisher

Routledge

Published

20 July 1999

Pages

266