Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries

Jooyeon Rhee (Anthology Editor) , Chikako Nagayama (Anthology Editor) , Eric Ping Hung Li (Anthology Editor) , Russell Belk (Contributor) , Shelley W. Chan (Contributor) , Su Young Choi (Contributor) ,

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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries

Jooyeon Rhee (Anthology Editor) , Chikako Nagayama (Anthology Editor) , Eric Ping Hung Li (Anthology Editor) , Russell Belk (Contributor) , Shelley W. Chan (Contributor) , Su Young Choi (Contributor) ,

Online resources available

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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.

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

Product details

Published	Oct 12 2021
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	310
ISBN	9781793623546
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	5 b/w illustrations; 9 b/w photos; 4 tables;
Dimensions	227 x 161 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jooyeon Rhee

Anthology Editor

Chikako Nagayama

Anthology Editor

Eric Ping Hung Li

Contributor

Russell Belk

Contributor

Shelley W. Chan

Contributor

Su Young Choi

Contributor

Jonathan Deschenes

Contributor

Dandan Fang

Contributor

Guojun (Sawyer) He

Contributor

Nathan Hopson

Contributor

Matt M. Husain

Contributor

Ame´lie Keyser-Verreault

Contributor

Olga Khomenko

Contributor

Somin Lee

Contributor

Eric Ping Hung Li

Contributor

Yuko Minowa

Contributor

Chikako Nagayama

Contributor

Maria Osetrova

Contributor

Chien-wei Pan

Contributor

Violetta Ravagnoli

Contributor

Jooyeon Rhee

Contributor

Gabriel F. Y. Tsang

“A book that brings together the strengths of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies to critically analyze gender dynamics in food media in PRC, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Much of the empirical material is new and exciting, and the conceptual apparatus is subtle and provocative. It helps us understand the cultural transformations associated with rapid socioeconomic change in East Asia and among East Asians elsewhere.”

Krishnendu Ray, author of The Ethnic Restaurateur and co-editor of Curried Cultures
“An excellent addition to the growing literature on critical food studies and transnational feminisms. Richly contextualized, theoretically informed, and astutely analyzed with fascinating stories and examples from multi-disciplinary perspectives, it presents ‘transnational East Asias’ as a fluid, dynamic, and complex site for rethinking the gender politics embedded in the symbolic and material practice of foods in East Asia and Asian American communities.”

Hyaeweol Choi, author of Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea and co-author of Gender in Modern East Asia