Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities

ISBN-13: 9780415223058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str.

Elspeth Probyn

Opis

Is eating better than sex? The answer is that it depends on what you eat. While the book revels in the gloriously sexy intersections of the sexual and the alimentary, it also explores issues that trouble society, issues that are still not quite digestible: appetite, desire, greed and pleasure. Going beyond a celebration of identity, either in terms of food or of sex, Probyn offers an alternative model of identity, and details the ways in which we digest ourselves now. We are mouth machines that ingest and spit out bits of the local and the global, the familiar and the strange. Across a number of sites - funk food, McDonald's, vegetarianism and ethical eating, food-sex, cannibalism, anorexia, bulimia and fat politics - the book constantly jostles debates about identity.

Recenzje

'The scope of her research is vast ... Lays out some startling and thought-provoking takes on conventional wisdom about the ethics, affect and erotics of eating.' - Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Intensities

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Introduction: gut feelings, 1 Bodies that eat, 2 Feeding McWorld, eating ideologies, 3 Eating sex, 4 Cannibal hunger, restraint in excess, 5 Eating in black and white: the making of Mod Oz, 6 Eating disgust, feeding shame, Postscript: eating—the new sensuality?, Notes, References, Index

O autorze

Elspeth Probyn is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Outside Belongings (Routledge, 1996) and Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1993), and co-editor with Elizabeth Grosz of Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism (Routledge, 1995).