| Description |
xiv, 170 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-164) and index. |
| Contents |
Food is everyone's first language -- How it all began -- Disruptions in traditional role -- Taking up too much space -- Food as a metaphor -- Denial of desire -- What's wrong with American food -- Kitchen counter reforms -- Woman the provider / Elaine S. Morse -- All animals feed, only humans eat -- Foraging societies -- Horticultural societies -- Agrarian societies -- Subversion by food processors and reformers -- Rise of the giant food processors -- A "scientific" approach to food and eating -- Acquiescence to advertising -- Domestic science withers women's appetite -- A woman's home is her castle -- Counterculture creates countercuisine -- Big business manipulates the countercuisine -- Big brother manipulated by big business -- Feminists discover ecology -- The more we change, the more we stay the same -- Food as a status symbol -- Is our food healthy and safe? -- Comfort food will make everything okay -- Food and eating as a morality play -- Disturbed eating -- The staff of life hits a quagmire -- The food cliches -- Women and appetite: a feminist analysis -- Healing ourselves with food -- In support of real bodies -- Reconnecting with food -- Taking control -- Alternative eating -- Transposing the personal and political -- The personal as political: appetite for change -- What Americans eat: fact not fiction -- The political as personal: voting with our forks -- Conclusions -- The "pig in the python" reaches the gut -- You are what you eat -- Do the ends justify the means? -- Bringing "other" in from the margins. |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women -- United States -- Psychology.
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Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Food habits -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0897896297 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780897896290 paperback alkaline paper |
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0897894480 alkaline paper |
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9780897894487 alkaline paper |
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