Abstract
The Introduction presents the rationale for the special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recurrent literary concern, granted the importance of ordering and regulating food consumption for community cohesion. It is particularly concerned to ask what is, and what is not, specific about the contemporary late-capitalist period, which has seen such an explosion of eating disorders, in the context of ever more disorderly eating. We ask what we can learn from the elaboration of the disorderly preparing, serving, sharing and eating of food specifically in contemporary women’s writing in French, Spanish, English, Italian and German. The Introduction adopts a cross-cultural perspective to suggest both some commonalities and some contextual specificities to the lived and represented experience of eating and disorder across sexes, classes, generations and ethnicities.
Highlights
Introduction to Disorderly Eating in ContemporaryWomen’s WritingShirley Jordan and Judith Still AbstractThe Introduction presents the rationale for the special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field
Our argument is that women are interested in the politics of eating and feeding, and we ask how articulations of food and disorder are used imaginatively in their works to throw up a range of provocations
We argue that we must remember the long traditions of verbal and visual ideals of femininity, for example in a context where most girls attended church and gazed on statues and other images of pious virtue – and in which clothing, hair styles and so on were prescribed – some women escaped thanks to their class or status
Summary
Introduction to Disorderly Eating in ContemporaryWomen’s WritingShirley Jordan and Judith Still AbstractThe Introduction presents the rationale for the special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field.
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