Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

by Sarah Sceats

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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in the fiction of contemporary women writers. Sarah Sceats' lively analysis demonstrates that food and its consumption are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control. Focusing on the work of Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Mich le Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis, she makes powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behavior, and engages with issues as diverse as cannibalism and eating disorders.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521604559

ISBN13:9780521604550

Release Date:January 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.96 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

English Literature Gender Studies Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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