The anthropology of food and body : gender, meaning, and power /: gender, meaning, and power. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carole M. Counihan.
• Other Names: Counihan, Carole, 1948-
• Contents: 1. Food, Culture, and Gender -- 2. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia -- 3. Food, Power, and Female: Identity in Contemporary Florence -- 4. Food, Sex, and Reproduction: Penetration of Gender Boundaries -- 5. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female? A Review Essay -- 6. An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting: A Review Essay -- 7. Food Rules in the United States: Individualism, Control, and Hierarchy -- 8. Fantasy Food: Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children's Made-Up Stories -- 9. Food as Tie and Rupture: Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family -- 10. The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence, Italy -- 11. Body and Power in Women's Experiences of Reproduction in the United States.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 394.1; Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies; Food habits -- Italy; Food habits -- United States; Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- United States -- Social conditions; Women -- Italy -- Social conditions; Habitudes alimentaires -- Études transculturelles; Habitudes alimentaires -- Italie; Habitudes alimentaires -- États-Unis; Rôle selon le sexe -- Études transculturelles; Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales; Femmes -- Italie -- Conditions sociales; Food habits; Sex role; Women -- Social conditions; Ernährung; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Geschlechterrolle; Frau; Soziale Situation; Kulturvergleich; Habitudes alimentaires -- Italie -- Anthropologie; Habitudes alimentaires -- Etats-Unies -- Aspect anthropologique; Habitudes alimentaires -- Études transculturelles; Femmes -- Italie -- Conditions sociales; Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales; Levensmiddelen; Sekserol; Vrouwen; Voedingsgewoonten; Frau; Italy; United States; Italien; USA; USA; Cross-cultural studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317325390; 1317325397
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.