Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias
Toward a New Dialogue across Boundaries
Jooyeon Rhee editor Chikako Nagayama editor Eric Ping Hung Li editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:12th Oct '21
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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.
“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
ISBN: 9781793623546
Dimensions: 227mm x 161mm x 25mm
Weight: 685g
310 pages