Food and Femininity

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A personal food prologue
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Caring about food
	1. Food, femininity, and feminism: A very brief history
	2. The study
	3. The chapters ahead
Chapter 2 Thinking through food and femininity: A conceptual toolkit
	1.  Food femininities: Embodied ways of doing gender
	2.  Feeling neoliberalism
	3.  Consuming status/Eating for change
	4.  A feminist approach to food and “eating for change”
Chapter 3 Strolling the aisles and feeling food shopping
	1.  Theories of food shopping: Gender, class, and place
	2.  The emotional experience of food shopping
	3.  Conclusion: The gendered and classed ­pleasures of food shopping
Chapter 4 Maternal foodwork: The emotional ties that bind
	1.  Mothering and foodwork: Emotional investments and intensive mothering
	2.  Mothers as guardians of health and taste
	3.  Raising an organic child
	4.  Conclusion: The emotional potency of feeding children
Chapter 5 The “do-diet”: Embodying healthy femininities
	1.  Embodied neoliberalism, fat-phobia, and “choosing” health
	2.  Feminist approaches to the body, health, and postfeminist empowerment
	3.  The do-diet: Calibrating choice and control
	4.  A do-diet discussion
Chapter 6 Food politics: The gendered work of caring through food
	1.  Eating for change?
	2.  Ethical consumption as care-work
	3.  When foodwork becomes a civic practice
	4.  Conclusion
Chapter 7 Food pleasures in the postfeminist kitchen
	1.  Ambivalent appetites: Food, pleasure, and postfeminism
	2.  Eating pleasures
	3.  Cooking pleasures
	4.  Conclusion
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Cooking as a feminist act?
	1.  Feminist ideals and foodwork routines
	2.  Lived experiences: “I don’t think that I have to boycott home-cooking as a feminist”
	3.  Building a feminist food politics
Appendix A: Participant demographics
Appendix B: Methods
Appendix C: Discourse analysis of food media
References
Index