Overview
- Examines how contemporary food discourses appropriate feminist terminology to tacitly reinforce body-surveillance practices
- Aims to further develop a feminist resistance to body-policing cultural norms
- Proposes that body-policing narratives are generally a Western phenomenon
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digesting Femininities
Book Subtitle: The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture
Authors: Natalie Jovanovski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58925-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86510-2Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58925-1Published: 18 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 213
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Feminism, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies