First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Introduction to the Series, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction-Food and Gender: Identity and Power, 2 Food and Sexual Identity Among the Culina , 3 "Men Are Taro" (They Cannot Be Rice): Political Aspects of Food Choices in Wamira, Papua New Guinea, 4 Hospitality, Women, and the Efficacy of Beer, 5 Feeding Their Faith: Recipe Knowledge Among Thai Buddhist Women, 6 An Anthropological View of Western Women's Prodigious Fasting, 7 Women as Gatekeepers, 8 What Does It Mean To Be Fat, Thin, and Female in the United States?, About the Contributors, Index