Food, feminisms, rhetorics / edited by Melissa A. Goldthwaite.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972- editor.

James Samuel Blank Fund.

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food writing.

Food in literature.

Feminist literature.

Food writers--Biography.

Food writers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Inspired by the need for interpretations and critiques of the varied messages surrounding what and how we eat, Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics collects eighteen essays that demonstrate the importance of food and food-related practices as sites of scholarly study, particularly from feminist rhetorical perspectives. Contributors analyze messages about food and bodies--from what a person watches and reads to where that person shops--taken from sources mundane and literary, personal and cultural. This collection begins with analyses of the historical, cultural, and political implications of cookbooks and recipes; explores definitions of feminist food writing; and ends with a focus on bodies and cultures--both self-representations and representations of others for particular rhetorical purposes. The genres, objects, and practices contributors study are varied--from cookbooks to genre fiction, from blogs to food systems, from product packaging to paintings--but the overall message is the same: food and its associated practices are worthy of scholarly attention.

Contents:

Part I Purposeful Cooking: Recipes for Historiography, Thrift, and Peace

1 Writing Recipes, Telling Histories: Cookbooks as Feminist Historiography / Carrie Helms Tippen Tippen, Carrie Helms 15

2 The Embodied Rhetoric of Recipes / Jennifer Cognard-Black Cognard-Black, Jennifer 30

3 Understanding the Significance of "Kitchen Thrift" in Prescriptive Texts about Food / Jennifer E. Courtney Courtney, Jennifer E. 48

4 Promoting Peace, Subverting Domesticity: Cookbooks against War, 1968-83 / Abby Dubisar Dubisar, Abby 60

Part II Defining Feminist Food Writing

5 The Meaning of a Meal: M. F. K. Fisher and Gastronomical Kairos / Erin Branch Branch, Erin 77

6 Feminist Culinary Autobiographies: Batterie de Cuisine to Peaceable Kingdom / Lynn Z. Bloom Bloom, Lynn Z. 89

7 From Street Food to Digital Kitchens: Toward a Feminist Rhetoric of Culinary Tourism (or, How Not to Devour Paris and Eat Your Way through Asia) / Kristin Winet Winet, Kristin 100

Part III Rhetorical Representations of Food-Related Practices

8 Not Your Father's Family Farm: Toward Transformative Rhetorics of Food and Agriculture / Abby Wilkerson Wilkerson, Abby 119

9 Baklava as Home: Exile and Arab Cooking in Diana Abu-Jaber's Novel Crescent / Arlene Voski Avakian Avakian, Arlene Voski 132

10 Feeling Good and Eating Well: Race, Gender, and Affect in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats / Winona Landis Landis, Winona 142

11 Sugar and Spice: Cooking with the Girl Poisoner / Sylvia A. Pamboukian Pamboukian, Sylvia A. 155

12 Boxed Wine Feminisms: The Rhetoric of Women's Wine Drinking in The Good Wife / Tammie M. Kennedy Kennedy, Tammie M. 171

Part IV Rhetorical Representations of Bodies and Cultures

13 The Commodification of Mexican Women on Mexican Food Packaging / Consuelo Carr Salas Salas, Consuelo Carr 189

14 Feeding the Self: Representations of Nourishment and Female Bodies in Holocaust Art / Alexis Baker Baker, Alexis 200

15 Evolving Ana: Inviting Recovery / Morgan Gresham Gresham, Morgan 212

16 Reconstructing the Female Food-Body: Profanity, Purity, and the Bakhtinian Grotesque in Skinny Bitch / Rebecca Ingalls Ingalls, Rebecca 222

17 Gusto and Grace: Two Fat Ladies and the Rhetorical Construction of a Fat Culinary Ethos / Sara Hillin Hillin, Sara 237

18 Deconstructing the Plus-Size Female Sleuth: Fat Positive Discourse, Rhetorical Excess, and Cultural Constructions of Femininity in Cozy Crime Fiction / Elizabeth Lowry Lowry, Elizabeth 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.

ISBN:

9780809335909

0809335905

OCLC:

953985427

Publisher Number:

99972632670