What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers: Food, Weight, and Eating Disorders

Description: What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers by Renée S. Scott There is presently an immense scholarly interest in Latin American female literary production, specifically on the subject of the body. Latin American publications on weight and eating disorders abound, especially in the fields of psychology and sociology. However, there are only a few articles addressing these themes in the fictional work of Latin American women authors. What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers fills a theoretical void because it speaks to an ever-growing interest in Latin American literature about women, food, and the body. This study not only traces for the first time the historical development of the topics of food, eating consumption, and body image but also features well-known authors and others who are yet to be discovered in United States. The book contributes to the ongoing critical dialogue about women and food by offering an analysis of food, weight, and eating disorders in Latin American and Latina literary production. It demonstrates that since the 1990s, authors have been expanding the subject of food by exploring its connection to the social and cultural pressures associated with the postmodern obsession with the thin body. The texts in What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers are examined with an interdisciplinary critical approach that considers cultural, sociological, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories. It takes into consideration the specificity of Latin American cultures and it combines Latin American theories with those brought forth by North American and European critics in an effort to account more accurately for the idiosyncratic manifestations presently occurring in Latin American writings. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN1604976403 Short Title WHAT IS EATING LATIN AMER WOME Publisher Cambria Press Language English ISBN-10 1604976403 ISBN-13 9781604976403 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-09-28 Pages 166 Subtitle Food, Weight, and Eating Disorders UK Release Date 2009-09-28 Imprint Cambria Press Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Place of Publication Youngstown Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-09-28 NZ Release Date 2009-09-28 US Release Date 2009-09-28 Author Renée S. Scott DEWEY 613.2082 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136519167;

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