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

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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521661536
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Women Writers & Fiction > Short Stories
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 April 2000
Listed Since: 02 February 2007

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