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QEN 102: Food & Gender

Recommended Articles

April Davidauskis, "How Beautiful Women Eat: Feminine Hunger in American Popular Culture," Feminist Formations 27.1 Spring 2015

Recommended e-Books

Katherine Parkins, Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Charlotte Druckman, Women on Food (Harry Abrams, 2019).

Recommended Books on Course Reserve

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: the Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Harvard, 1988).
Katherine Parkins, Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race (Univ. of Penn, 2001)
Virginia Sole-Smith, The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Paul Freedman, American Cuisine: And How it Got this Way (Liveright, 2019).
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body