Food, Identity and Mobility - A Taste of Power - Single View

Not only are we what we eat, what we eat depends very much on who we are. Examining diet guides, cookbooks, nutritional advice, dining scenes in literature and movies etc., this course investigates how culinary discourses participate in the making of identity - with particular focus on the 19th to 21st century. British cookbooks and culinary/domestic accounts offer manifold access to analysis of the construction of gender in diet advice and cookbooks, the political agenda of food and minority cuisines, and the marking of class through food and concepts of domestic regime. The journey through the culinary and domestic cultures also introduces methods and theories of cultural studies in general, thus equipping students with the instruments to approach popular or expert discourses in an informed and analytical fashion.