04080nam 2200841 a 450 991082895190332120200520144314.01-107-11815-81-316-27493-40-511-04873-41-280-16209-00-511-15086-50-511-48538-70-511-32475-80-521-66153-60-511-11802-3(CKB)111056485623590(EBL)147322(OCoLC)475871411(SSID)ssj0000156626(PQKBManifestationID)11170527(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000156626(PQKBWorkID)10130164(PQKB)10898855(UkCbUP)CR9780511485381(MiAaPQ)EBC147322(Au-PeEL)EBL147322(CaPaEBR)ebr10014874(CaONFJC)MIL16209(EXLCZ)9911105648562359019990809d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFood, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction /Sarah Sceats1st ed.Cambridge [England]New York Cambridge University Press20001 online resource (viii, 213 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-60455-9 0-511-01751-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.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.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.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFood in literatureWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory20th centuryEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismConsumption (Economics) in literatureEating disorders in literatureHuman body in literatureFood habits in literatureGastronomy in literatureEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Food in literature.Women and literatureHistoryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Consumption (Economics) in literature.Eating disorders in literature.Human body in literature.Food habits in literature.Gastronomy in literature.823/.91409355Sceats Sarah543424MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828951903321Food, consumption and the body in contemporary womens' fiction876480UNINA