Book review: Elspeth Probyn. Carnal appetites: Foodsexidentities. London and new York: Routledge, 2000 [Book Review]

Hypatia 18 (3):240-242 (2003)
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Abstract

Carnal Appetites does not fully work out a single coherent thesis. Rather, it is a preliminary exploration of a set of issues about food, culture and identity. Here is how Probyn describes her project: “The aim of this book is simple but immodest. Through the optic of food and eating, I want to investigate how as individuals we inhabit the present: how we eat into cultures, eat into identities, indeed eat into ourselves. At the same time I am interested in the question of what’s bothering us, what’s eating us now?” (2-3). Chapters explore shame, disgust, caring, sensuality, colonialism, racism, and global capitalism.

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Lisa Heldke
Gustavus Adolphus College

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