Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction / / Sarah Sceats

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828951903321
• Autore: Sceats Sarah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge [England] ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-11815-8; 1-316-27493-4; 0-511-04873-4; 1-280-16209-0; 0-511-15086-5; 0-511-48538-7; 0-511-32475-8; 0-521-66153-6; 0-511-11802-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.91409355
• Soggetti: English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism; Food in literature; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 20th century; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Eating disorders in literature; Human body in literature; Food habits in literature; Gastronomy in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The food of love -- Cannibalism and Carter -- Eating, starving and the body : Doris Lessing and others -- Sharp appetites : Margaret Atwood's consuming politics -- Food and manners : Roberts and Ellis -- Social eating : identity, communion and difference.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and ; eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.