Food and Gender: Identity and Power

by Carole M. Counihan and Steven Laurence Kaplan

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 905702568X
• ISBN13: 9789057025686
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"