Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-244) and index.
Contents:
1. Food, Culture, and Gender -- 2. Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia -- 3. Food, Power, and Female: Identity in Contemporary Florence -- 4. Food, Sex, and Reproduction: Penetration of Gender Boundaries -- 5. What Does It Mean to Be Fat, Thin, and Female? A Review Essay -- 6. An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting: A Review Essay -- 7. Food Rules in the United States: Individualism, Control, and Hierarchy -- 8. Fantasy Food: Gender and Food Symbolism in Preschool Children's Made-Up Stories -- 9. Food as Tie and Rupture: Negotiating Intimacy and Autonomy in the Florentine Family -- 10. The Body as Voice of Desire and Connection in Florence, Italy -- 11. Body and Power in Women's Experiences of Reproduction in the United States.
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