Feminism Sheds light on Food Studies

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Food preparation and cooking practices are seen as essential to Italian family life, and can mean both oppression and power for the women who participate in these conventions. Counihan (taking a feminist perspective) believes that the "production-reproduction dichotomy means women's sexuality is more closely regulated than men's because women stand for family, hearth and home" (Counihan, 97)...
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Counihan (taking a feminist perspective) believes that the "production-reproduction dichotomy means women's sexuality is more closely regulated than men's because women stand for family, hearth and home" (Counihan, 97). Feminist perspectives also incorporate themes of modernity in their views and research...
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