Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food

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  • ISBN 10 0742515737
  • ISBN 13 9780742515734
  • Published Aug 01 2001
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 224
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint Rowman & Littlefield

Publishers Text

This work explores the relationship between food and gender. It draws from diverse sources, and looks at women from various cultural backgrounds. Each chapter focuses on a food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives. For example, food has often offered women a traditional way to gain power and influence in their households and larger communities. For women without access to other forms of creative expression, preparing a superior cake or a batch of fried chicken was a traditional way to display their talent in an acceptable venue. On the other hand, foods and the stereotypes attached to them have also been used to keep women (and men too) from different races, ethnicities, and social classes in their place.