Food, feminisms, rhetorics /

"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 rhetoric...

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Other Authors: Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
Series:Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing recipes, telling histories : cookbooks as feminist historiography / Carrie Helms Tippen
  • The embodied rhetoric of recipes / Jennifer Cognard-Black
  • Understanding the significance of "kitchen thrift" in prescriptive texts about food / Jennifer E. Courtney
  • Promoting peace, subverting domesticity : cookbooks against war, 1968-83 / Abby Dubisar
  • The meaning of a meal : M.F.K. Fisher and gastronomical kairos / Erin Branch
  • Feminist culinary autobiographies : batterie de cuisine to peaceable kingdom / Lynn Z. Bloom
  • 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
  • Not your father's family farm : toward transformative rhetorics of food and agriculture / Abby Wilkerson
  • Baklava as home : exile and Arab cooking in Diana Abu-Jaber's novel Crescent / Arlene Voski Avakian
  • Feeling good and eating well : race, gender, and affect in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats / Winona Landis
  • Sugar and spice : cooking with the girl poisoner / Sylvia A. Pamboukian
  • Boxed wine feminisms : the rhetoric of women's wine drinking in The Good Wife / Tammie M. Kennedy
  • The commodification of Mexican women on Mexican food packaging / Consuelo Carr Salas
  • Feeding the self : representations of nourishment and female bodies in Holocaust art / Alexis Baker
  • Evolving ana : inviting recovery / Morgan Gresham
  • Reconstructing the female food-body : profanity, purity, and the Bakhtinian grotesque in Skinny Bitch / Rebecca Ingalls
  • Gusto and grace : Two Fat Ladies and the rhetorical construction of a fat culinary ethos / Sara Hillin
  • Deconstructing the plus-size female sleuth : fat positive discourse, rhetorical excess, and cultural constructions of femininity in cozy crime fiction / Elizabeth Lowry.