Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction

Sarah Sceats

earliest edition we have, 2000 Cambridge University Press, 2000 213 pages

"This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and others. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful conn...

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Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511485381
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction paperback · 2005 · Cambridge University Press · 221 pages · 9780521604550
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction edition · 2005 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511033490
Food, consumption, and the body in contemporary women's fiction edition · 2000 · Cambridge University Press · 213 pages
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction edition · 2000 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511048739
Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women's Fiction edition · 2000 · Cambridge University Press · 223 pages · 9781280162091

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