From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food

by Jan Whitaker

Book Overview

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has been a focused effort to use gender as an analytic tool. This stimulating collection of original essays addresses that oversight, investigating the important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495118
• ISBN13: 9781558495111
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher