Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Long Division: Surpassing Mind/Body Duality; 1 Regimentation of the Private: Hunting Down "Matter out of Place"; 2 And the War Taketh Away: Female Embodiment and Sexual Excess in the Era of Austerity; 3 Body as Text, Body in Text: Reader Response and the Consuming Body; 4 Whole Numbers, Strange Remainders; Bibliography; Index.
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Examining female characters in Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fielding, and Rachel Cusk, Andrea Adolph focuses on how women's relationships to food are used to locate women's embodiment within the everyday and reveal the writers resistance to the traditional mind-body duality. Periodicals, housekeeping and cooking manuals, and other cultural artifacts inform Adolph's study of how women's social and cultural roles are intricately connected to issues of food and food consumption.
Food and femininity in twentieth-century British women's fiction.
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Food and femininity in 20th-century British women's fiction
English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.