Food and Femininity

by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston

Book Overview

Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food has changed dramatically. Yet - despite significant advances in gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of women. While women encounter food-related pressures and pleasures as individuals, the social challenge to perform food femininities remains: as the nurturing mother, the talented home cook, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857856642
• ISBN13: 9780857856647
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"