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A personal food prologue
Acknowledgments
1 Caring about food
1. Food, femininity, and feminism: A very brief history
2. The study
3. The chapters ahead
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”
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
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
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
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
7 Food pleasures in the postfeminist kitchen
1. Ambivalent appetites: Food, pleasure, and postfeminism
2. Eating pleasures
3. Cooking pleasures
4. Conclusion
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
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