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Food, consumption and the body in contemporary women's fiction
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ISBN: 0521661536 1316274934 0511048734 1280162090 0511150865 0511485387 0511324758 0511118023 1107118158 0511017510 9780511017513 9780521661539 0511033494 9780511033490 9780511118029 9780511048739 9780511150869 9780511485381 9780521604550 0521604559 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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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