Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The 100-Mile Diet, Gibson Girl, Flapper
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Power of language around food and eating, gender differences to encourage and eat less deepening on being male or female. Taboo for females to indulge in food. Perforative aspect to eating (i. e if on a first date theres a shame in eating) Activity of eating contained to present a different or more limited type of femininity. Policing of gender, eating habits of ourselves and others all ties into gender: computing eating habits to other. Associating around indulgence, women still afforded indulgence in limited quantities, calorie limited snacks allowing to transgress but still containing women"s appetites. Social aspect to way we eat, wether powering families, the school year survival relationships with roommates and sharing meal prep activities, jambs food revolution when think our commitment to social causes. Women in cookbooks domesticated in the cookbooks while the man is standing distanced from the domestic space.