Food and Gender : Identity and Power

"Food and Gender: identity and power" marks the inaugural volume in the "Food in history and culture" book series.

The series will anthologize articles originally published in the journal "Food and foodways".This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food centred activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures."Food and gender: identity and power" examines how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy.This relationship is considered through two central questions.

How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and how does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women?Other issues discussed include evaluating men's and women's attitudes about their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.