Women and Food

The relationship between women and food has been examined from multiple perspectives across various disciplines, revealing a connection that is both profound and filled with social and cultural meaning. This continuously changing relationship, significant and with deep historical roots, remains evident today.

In this book, Marzia Mauriello explores this dynamic connection in depth, analyzing the four principal axes that structure the connection between women and food: production, preparation, distribution, and consumption. At each of these stages, the gendered dimensions of this relationship become apparent, intertwined with social and cultural meanings. Mauriello presents ethnographic case studies from around the globe to highlight these complexities, incorporating a historical perspective that traces the dynamics of continuity and flux among these themes over time. Multidisciplinary and accessible, it will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, history, gender and food studies.