Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives not for a reductive overview but for a complex understanding. Eating Culture offers a number of diverse outlooks on some of the prominent practices and issues associated with the domain of eating in contemporary culture. Lavishly illustrated with nineteen photographs and eleven historical postcards, the book brings to bear contemporary, interdisciplinary thinking on a topic that has been widely but not critically discussed in the media.
[Contributors include Carol Adams, Marianna Beck, Susan Bordo, Priscilla Ferguson, Joanne Finkelstein, Dianna Fuss, Deborah R. Geis, bell hooks, David F. Krell, Steven F. Kruger, Alfonso Lingis, Mary Lukanuski, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ed Schiffer, Stephen Steinberg, Jeff Weinstein, Allen S. Weiss, Doris S. Witt, and Sharon Zukin.]
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz
1. Hunger as Ideology
Susan Bordo
2. "GET FAT, Don't Die!": Eating and AIDS in Gay Men's Culture
Steven F. Kruger
3. Eating Animals
Carol J. Adams
4. Eating Out: Voluptuosity for Dessert
David Farrell Krell
5. Only Food
Marianna Beck
6. The Careers of Chefs
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and Sharon Zukin
7. A Place at the Counter: The Onus of Oneness
Mary Lukanuski
8. Appetite
Alphonso Lingis
9. Untitled Artists' Projects by Janine Antoni, Ben Kinmont, Rirkrit Tiravanija
Laura Trippi
10. Edible Architecture, Cannibal Architecture
Allen S. Weiss
11. Food, Health, and Native-American Farming and Gathering
Gary Paul Nabhan
12. Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
bell hooks
13. Dining Out: The Hyperactivity of Appetite
Joanne Finkelstein
14. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Deborah R. Geis
15. A Supper Party
Diana Fuss
16. A Postcard History of the U.S. Restaurant
Jeff Weinstein
17. Soul Food: Where the Chitterling Hits the (Primal) Pan
Doris Witt
18. "Fable Number One": Some Myths about Consumption
Ed Schiffer
19. Bubbie's Challah
Stephen Steinberg
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