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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972- editor.

Series:

Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food writing.

Food in literature.

Feminist literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, [Illinois] : 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.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preparation and Ingredients: An Introduction to Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics

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

1. Writing Recipes, Telling Histories: Cookbooks as Feminist Historiography

2. The Embodied Rhetoric of Recipes

3. Understanding the Significance of "Kitchen Thrift" in Prescriptive Texts about Food

4. Promoting Peace, Subverting Domesticity: Cookbooks against War, 1968-83

Part II. Defining Feminist Food Writing

5. The Meaning of a Meal: M. F. K. Fisher and Gastronomical Kairos

6. Feminist Culinary Autobiographies: Batterie de Cuisine to Peaceable Kingdom

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)

Part III. Rhetorical Representations of Food-Related Practices

8. Not Your Father's Family Farm: Toward Transformative Rhetorics of Food and Agriculture

9. Baklava as Home: Exile and Arab Cooking in Diana Abu-Jaber's Novel Crescent

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

11. Sugar and Spice: Cooking with the Girl Poisoner

12. Boxed Wine Feminisms: The Rhetoric of Women's Wine Drinking in The Good Wife

Part IV. Rhetorical Representations of Bodies and Cultures

13. The Commodification of Mexican Women on Mexican Food Packaging

14. Feeding the Self: Representations of Nourishment and Female Bodies in Holocaust Art

15. Evolving Ana: Inviting Recovery

16. Reconstructing the Female Food-Body: Profanity, Purity, and the Bakhtinian Grotesque in Skinny Bitch

17. Gusto and Grace: Two Fat Ladies and the Rhetorical Construction of a Fat Culinary Ethos.

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

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-8093-3591-3

OCLC:

1007929759