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.

Table of 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

Product details

Published Oct 12 2021
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 310
ISBN 9781793623553
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations; 9 b/w photos; 4 tables;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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

Dandan Fang

Contributor

Nathan Hopson

Contributor

Matt M. Husain

Contributor

Olga Khomenko

Contributor

Somin Lee

Contributor

Yuko Minowa

Contributor

Maria Osetrova

Contributor

Chien-wei Pan

Contributor

Jooyeon Rhee

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