The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power

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Routledge, 1999 - Social Science - 256 pages
The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

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The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power
Carole M. Counihan
Limited preview - 2018
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power
Carole M. Counihan
Limited preview - 2018
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power
Carole Counihan
Limited preview - 1999

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About the author (1999)

Carole M. Counihan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Millersville University. She is co-editor of Food and Culture (Routledge, 1997), and of Food and Gender: Identity and Power (1998).

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power
AuthorCarole Counihan
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 1999
ISBN0415921929, 9780415921923
Length256 pages
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Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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