Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Digesting Femininities: Gendered Food Discourses and Body-Policing Narratives; Development of the Project; Overview; References; Chapter 2: Beyond Body-Centrism: Making Food Discourses the Main Course of Feminist Analysis; Body Policing as Gendered Socialisation; Eating Disorders: Understanding Body Policing Through a Pathologising Lens; The Dominance of Fashion and Beauty Critiques in Feminism; Making Food the Main Course; Dietetic Food Femininities: Dieting as a Gendered Phenomenon

Culinary Food Femininities: Cooking as a Gendered PhenomenonFeminist Food Femininities: Feminist Consciousness as a Gendered Phenomenon; Note; References; Chapter 3: A Smörgåsbord of Food Femininities: How Gender Politics and Food Culture Combine; Language and Discourse as Gendered; Patriarchal Discourses and Harmful Gender Norms; Food Femininities: A Radical Perspective; Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Method; References; Chapter 4: Femininities-Lite: Diet Culture, Feminism and Body Policing; A Feminist Diet?; "Don't Be a Pussy": Freedman and Barnouin's Post-Feminist Food Femininity

SkinnyBitch; Post-Feminist Veganism; Animalising Women; Anthropomorphising 'Food'; "Just F
ing Do It": Bridges' Liberal-Individualist Food Femininity; Just Do It: Deconstructing the Mantra; Just Do It Like a Woman; Just Fucking Do What?; Confession; Panopticism (or Self-Surveillance); Confessional Panopticism; Self-Surveillance, Confession and the Female Body; Self-Surveillance, Confession and Women's Eating Behaviour; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Cooking Up Femininities: Motherhood, Hedonism and Body Policing in Popular Cookbooks; Using Food as a Mouthpiece

"Cracking the Combination Lock": Tana's Maternal and Hedonistic Food FemininitiesConsuming the 'Yummy Mummy': Nigella's Maternal and Hedonistic Food Femininities; 'It Must Be in My Blood': Julie's Maternal and Hedonistic Food Femininities; Becoming a "Certified Feeder": Poh's Maternal and Hedonistic Food Femininities; References; Chapter 6: Flavours of Feminism: Iconic Feminist Voices and Body-Policing Narratives; Defining 'Feminist Icon'; Orbach's Feminist Self-Help Food Femininities in Fat Is a Feminist Issue; 'Fat' as a Resistance to Ideal Femininity; Pathologising the 'Fat' Female Body

Body Policing and the Asexual 'Fat' WomanFat Is a Feminist Issue as a Consciousness-Raising Tool; The Unhappy Marriage of Feminism and Self-Help; Wolf's Liberal-Feminist Food Femininities in The Beauty Myth; Wolf's Second-Wave Feminist Influences; A Liberal-Feminist Food Femininity; The Feminist Third-Wave: A New Way to See; Note; References; Chapter 7: Unveiling a Pathogenic Food Consciousness: Gender, Patriarchy and the Neoliberal Subject; Identifying a Bulimic Cultural Consciousness; The Role of Patriarchy in the Bulimic Cultural Consciousness; Aesthetic Palatability