Food and gender
Subtitle: identity and power
By: edited by Carole M. Counihan and Steven L. Kaplan
Series: Food in history and culture -- v. 1; Food in history and culture -- v. 1.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Australia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780203381243
Subjects: Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Food; Food habits; General; Social aspects; Psychological aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: This volume examines the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It examines how each gender's relationship towards food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Food and Gender: Identity and Power Carole M.Counihan; Food and Sexual Identity Among the Culina Donald K.Pollock; M̃en Are Taro ̃(They Cannot Be Rice): Political Aspects of Food Choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea Miriam Kahn; Hospitality, Women, and the Efficacy of Beer Kathryn S.March; Feeding Their Faith: Recipe Knowledge Among Thai Buddhist Women Penny Van Esterik; An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting Carole M.Counihan; Women as Gatekeepers Alex McIntosh and Mary Zey