Ebook: Food and Culture

Introduction to the series -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : food and gender : identity and power / Carole M. Counihan -- Food and sexual identity among the Culina / Donald K. Pollack -- 'Men are taro' (they cannot be rice) : political aspects of food choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea / Miriam Kahn -- Hospitality, women, and the efficacy of beer / Kathryn S. March -- Feeding their faith : recipe knowledge among Thai Buddhist women / Penny Van Esterik -- An anthropological view of western women's prodigious fasting / Carole M. Counihan -- Women as gatekeepers / Alex McIntosh and Mary Zey -- What does it mean to be fat, thin, and female in the United States? / Carole M. Counihan -- Index -- About the contributors.