Digesting Femininities : The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture / / by Natalie Jovanovski

• Autore: Jovanovski Natalie
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 213 p.)
• Disciplina: 664.06021873
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; Human body—Social aspects; Feminist theory; Culture; Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Sociology of the Body; Feminism; Sociology of Culture; Cultural Studies
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research -- 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses -- 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture -- 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure -- 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal -- 7. Unveiling a Pathogenic Food Consciousness: Gender, Feminism, and the 'Neoliberal Subject' Conclusion. Hold the Femininities: Ordering a Genderless Food Consciousness?. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological. Throughout, Natalie Jovanovski discusses key texts written by women, for women: best-selling diet books, popular cookbooks produced by female food celebrities, and iconic feminist self-help texts. This is the first book to engage in a feminist analysis of body-policing food trends that focus specifically on the use of feminist rhetoric as a harmful aspect of food culture. There is a smorgasbord of seemingly diverse gender roles for women to choose from, but many encourage breaking gender norms and embracing a love of food while perpetuating old narratives of guilt and restraint. Digesting Femininities problematizes the gendering of food and eating and challenges the reader to imagine what a genderless and emancipatory food culture would look like.
• Titolo autorizzato: Digesting Femininities
• ISBN: 3-319-58925-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910252696703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II