Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Scenes of the apple : appetite, desire, writing / Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran
  • Appetite and consumption in nineteenth-century cultural politics. Good and plenty : Queen Victoria figures the imperial body / Adrienne Munich ; Ingestion, contagion, seduction: Victorian metaphors of reading / Pamela K. Gilbert ; Consuming images : Women, hunger, and the vote / Linda Schlossberg
  • Grotesque, ghostly, and cannibalistic hunger in twentieth-century texts. "The courage of her appetites" : The ambivalent grotesque in Ellen Glasgow's Romantic Comedians / Debra Beilke ; "Death is a skipped meal compared to this" : Food and hunger in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Ann Folwell Stanford ; "There is no God who can keep us from tasting" : Good cannibalism in Hélène Cixous's The Book of Promethea / Chris Foss ; "I cannot eat my words but I do" : Food, body, and word in the novels of Jeanette Winterson / Suzanne Keen
  • Food and cooking : Patriarchal colonial, familial structures. Rewriting the hysteric as anorexic in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions / Sue Thomas ; Latin American women writers' novel recipes and Laura Esquival's LIke Water for Chocolate / Janice A. Jaffe
  • "A sinkside, stoveside, personal perspective" : Female authority and kitchen space in comtemporary women's writing / Patricia Moran.