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Beyond Body-Centrism: Making Food Discourses the Main Course of Feminist Analysis

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This chapter offers a critique of the existing feminist literature on body-policing cultural messages, and reinforces the need to study discourses on food and eating from a feminist perspective. I argue that the dominance of feminist critiques around fashion and beauty industries and their promotion of body-policing narratives in women have detracted from other problematic discourses that do the same. To address the importance of food discourses, the chapter draws attention to gaps in the current feminist literature on diet books, cookbooks and iconic feminist texts as a way to reinforce the need to study the way food and eating are discussed in body-policing terms from a feminist perspective.

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Jovanovski, N. (2017). Beyond Body-Centrism: Making Food Discourses the Main Course of Feminist Analysis. In: Digesting Femininities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58925-1_2

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