From «The Diary of a Greedy Woman» to Food Porn. Appetite and Pleasure in the Discourse of Women Gastronomes

Autore: Julieta Flores Jurado
In: Genesis. XVI / 1 , 2017
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Abstract

From «The Diary of a Greedy Woman» to Food Porn. Appetite and Pleasure in the Discourse of Women Gastronomes
Today, we encounter a wide array of texts authored by women, focused on a celebratory, hedonist personal relation with food. These texts continue to enrich the landscape of feminist food studies in many interesting ways. In this article, I read the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell and M.F.K. Fisher as part of a crusade for legitimizing the expression of female pleasure through gastronomic writing. Then, I proceed to explore more recent transformations in the relation between food and femininities and their effect in contemporary phenomena, such as the highly sexualized persona of female cooks in TV programs or the online sharing of food porn, images that erotize food. I discuss different examples of gastronomical texts that describe a process of female empowerment through food, and I close with some considerations about the risks implied in promoting this new paradigm of pleasure as a normative model in the postfeminist context.