Food and Gender: Exploring the Cultural and Historical Connections in Nutrition - Perfect for Anthropology and Sociology Studies
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This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions: How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and How does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? Other issues discussed include men's and women's attitudes towards their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.
Customer Reviews
I read this book for research purposes. My research proposal was how food has become so gendered so the title of this book seemed to perfectly fit. The summary of what the book examines, like the construction of gendered identity and how food has led to gender hierarchy, does just that. All the information in the book was perfectly laid out and made it easy to understand. The questions the author's ask are relevant to how and why gender and food have become so stereotyped, such as, how does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women? For my own purposes, this book was the perfect match. It helped me through my research greatly. If one was researching the same or similar topic, I would highly recommend "Food and Gender". Even if just interested in the topic, this would be an overall good read.
