Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

by Sarah Sceats

Book Overview

This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of contemporary women writers. Sarah Sceats' lively analysis demonstrates that food and its consumption are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control. Focusing on the work of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Mich le Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis, she makes powerful connections between food and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521661536
• ISBN13: 9780521661539
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"