Avakian (women's studies, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) brings together a collection of 42 essays by 40 feminist authors, academics, historians, filmmakers, and social activists offering "a critical i
Applying the insights of feminist scholarship to the study of food, these essays consider women and food in the context of the marketplace, history, representations and resistances. Avakian (women's s
Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the political history of black women in the United States by placing them "at the