Sweetness and power
Subtitle: rethinking Sidney Mintz's classic work
By: guest editor, Amy Bentley
Contributors: Women, Men, and Food: Putting Gender on the Table (Conference) (2007 : Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
Series: Food & foodways -- v. 16, no. 2; Food & foodways -- no. 2.
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Sugar; History; Sugar trade
Notes: Title from p. [4] of cover.

Revised and expanded versions of comments made in session, "Sweetness, Gender and Power: Rethinking Sidney Mintz's Classic Work," held during the Conference, "Women, Men, and Food: Putting Gender on the Table," sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, April 12 and 13, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Amy Bentley; title: Eating the dead : consumption and regeneration in the history of sugar / Vincent Brown; title: Reconsidering Sweetness and power through a gendered lens / Judith Carney; title: China and the global Atlantic : sugar from the age of Columbus to Pepsi-Coke and ethanol / Sucheta Mazumdar; title: Response / Sidney Mintz; title: Book reviews / Sarah C. Walshaw ... [et al.].