Full Description
Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is increasingly visible, forming various forces behind the cultural and political constructions of gender politics among and beyond Asian diasporas. It argues that a critical engagement with practices and representations of food from gender perspectives can enhance our understanding of the society and culture of transnational East Asia.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jooyeon Rhee, Chikako Nagayama, and Eric Ping Hung Li
Part I: Imagination of Culinary Nationalism
Chapter 1 Women, Waste, and War: Food, Gender, and Rationalization in Wartime Japanese Discourse
Nathan Hopson
Chapter 2 A Bite of the Gender Equality Discourse in China: Observations from Food
Guojun (Sawyer) He, Dandan Fang, and Jonathan Deschênes
Chapter 3 Young Men in Chef Uniforms and Suffering Mothers in Hanbok: Gendered Representation of National Cuisine in the Sikkaek Series
Maria Osetrova
Part II: Body and Embodiment
Chapter 4 The Body as Food: Gender, Eating, and Cannibalism in Yan Lianke's The Four Books
Shelley W. Chan
Chapter 5 "Veganism Will Rise like Feminism": The Porous Contestation of Intersectional Vegan Feminism against the Exclusive Politics of Korean Popular Feminism
Su Young Choi
Chapter 6 Embodying Carnal Appetites: Food and Sexuality in Li Ang's Mandarin Duck Aphrodisiacs
Chien-wei Pan
Part III
