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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Manton, Catherine, 1942- Fed up. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1999 (OCoLC)654319577 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Manton |
| ISBN: | 0897896297 9780897896290 0897894480 9780897894487 |
| OCLC Number: | 39189813 |
| Description: | xiv, 170 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Food is everyone's first language -- How it all began -- Disruptions in traditional role -- Taking up too much space -- Food as a metaphor -- Denial of desire -- What's wrong with American food -- Kitchen counter reforms -- Woman the provider / Elaine S. Morse -- All animals feed, only humans eat -- Foraging societies -- Horticultural societies -- Agrarian societies -- Subversion by food processors and reformers -- Rise of the giant food processors -- A "scientific" approach to food and eating -- Acquiescence to advertising -- Domestic science withers women's appetite -- A woman's home is her castle -- Counterculture creates countercuisine -- Big business manipulates the countercuisine -- Big brother manipulated by big business -- Feminists discover ecology -- The more we change, the more we stay the same -- Food as a status symbol -- Is our food healthy and safe? -- Comfort food will make everything okay -- Food and eating as a morality play -- Disturbed eating -- The staff of life hits a quagmire -- The food cliches -- Women and appetite: a feminist analysis -- Healing ourselves with food -- In support of real bodies -- Reconnecting with food -- Taking control -- Alternative eating -- Transposing the personal and political -- The personal as political: appetite for change -- What Americans eat: fact not fiction -- The political as personal: voting with our forks -- Conclusions -- The "pig in the python" reaches the gut -- You are what you eat -- Do the ends justify the means? -- Bringing "other" in from the margins. |
| Responsibility: | Catherine Manton. |
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- Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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- Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Food habits -- United States.
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- Eetstoornissen.
- Feminisme.
- Sociale geschiedenis.
- Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales.
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- Aliments -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
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