Food and women in Italian literature, culture, and society : Eve's sinful bite /: Eve's sinful bite. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Claudia Bernardi, Francesca Calamita, Daniele De Feo.
• Editors: (Senior lecturer in Italian), Bernardi, Claudia; Calamita, Francesca; De Feo, Daniele
• Contents: IntroductionPart I: Gender and Social Norms in Food WritingsChapter 1: She is not selfish enough to analyze and favor these sensual pleasures: The Role of Women in Nineteenth Century Italian Taste (Daniele De Feo, Princeton University) Chapter 2: Marcella cucina: Marcella Hazan and the Authority of the Italian Cookbook (Danielle Callegari, University of California, Berkeley College) Chapter 3: Domestic Labour, Everyday Pleasure and Perspective in Simonetta Agnello Hornby's Culinary Memoirs Un filo d'olio and Il pranzo di Mose (Georgia Wall, University of Warwick) Part II: Food, Womanhood and the Italian SouthChapter 4: Food, Adultery, and the Pursuit of the Modern in Matilde Serao's La virtù di Checchina (Luca Cottini, Villanova University) Chapter 5: Spiritual Sustenance: Naples' Soul Food in the Narrative Language of Matilde Serao and Elena Ferrante (Pia L. Bertucci, University of South Carolina) Chapter 6: Eros and Thanatos Meet in the Southern Kitchens of Italy: Castaldi, Ferrante and Torregrossa (Giovanna Summerfield, Auburn University) Chapter 7: The 'Greedy Southern Woman as a National Italian Cliché: A Preliminary Proposal (Teresa Di Somma and Marcello Messina, Universidade Federal Do Acre) Part III: Food, Gender and Italian Identity Chapter 8: From Pizzaiola to Phenom: Viewing Sophia Loren Through Food (Niki Kiviat, Columbia University) Chapter 9: Women's Eccentric and Nomadic Cooking in Fabrizia Ramondino's Althénopis: When Food Tastes Good and Subversive (Rossella Di Rosa, University of Georgia) Chapter 10: Feeding the Body, Feeding the Language: Nourishment as a Metaphor of Writing in Igiaba Scego's Literary Works (Laura-Marzia Lenci, Boston University) Part IV: Food, Family and PoliticsChapter 11: Writing Food: Issues of Female Identity and Gender Politics in Dacia Maraini's Novels (Maria Morelli, University of Leicester) Chapter 12: Around the Table: Gender and Generational Conflict in Clara Sereni's Autobiographical Writing (Maria Grazia Scrimieri, University of Côte d'Azur) Chapter 13: Beyond Size and Weight: Gianna Schelotto's 'La ragazza che mangiava la luna' (1992) (Francesca Calamita, University of Virginia) Chapter 14: Happy Hours: Food, Politics and Female Friendship in Silvia Ballestra's Amiche mie (Claudia Bernardi, Victoria University of Wellington).
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 394.120945; Food habits -- Social aspects -- Italy; Women -- Nutrition -- Italy; Gender identity -- Italy; National characteristics, Italian; Food in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350137806; 9781350137790
• Related ISBNs: 9781350137783
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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