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Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction /
"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 and others....
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press,
New York : 2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The food of love; mothering, feeding, eating, and desire
- Cannibalism and Carter: fantasies of omnipotence
- Eating, starving and the body: Doris Lessing and others
- Sharp appetites: Margaret Atwood's consuming politics
- Food and manners: Roberts and Ellis
- Social eating: identity, communion and difference.