The anthropology of food and body : gender, meaning, and power

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. This book examines the way we understand our bodies, our genders, and ourselves through food. The author uses a cross-cultural approach to the study of food, in order to ask compelling questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction and gender differences Food is a many-splendored thing, central to biological and social life.