Digesting Femininities: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture

Jovanovski, Natalie

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-08-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319865102

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58925-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 213