Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is increasingly visible, forming various forces behind the cultural and political constructions of gender politics among and beyond Asian diasporas. It argues that a critical engagement with practices and representations of food from gender perspectives can enhance our understanding of the society and culture of transnational East Asia.

“"An excellent addition to the growing literature on critical food studies and transnational feminisms. Richly contextualized, theoretically informed, and astutely analyzed with fascinating stories and examples from multi-disciplinary perspectives, it presents 'transnational East Asias' as a fluid, dynamic, and complex site for rethinking the gender politics embedded in the symbolic and material practice of foods in East Asia and Asian American communities."”

"A book that brings together the strengths of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies to critically analyze gender dynamics in food media in PRC, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Much of the empirical material is new and exciting, and the conceptual apparatus is subtle and provocative. It helps us understand the cultural transformations associated with rapid socioeconomic change in East Asia and among East Asians elsewhere."

Jooyeon Rhee is assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Chikako Nagayama is associate professor at G30 Linguistics and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University.

Eric Ping Hung Li is associate professor at the Faculty of Management of the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus.

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food impacts the changing social positions of individuals and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is increasingly visible, forming various forces behind the cultural and political constructions of gender politics among and beyond Asian diasporas. It argues that a critical engagement with practices and representations of food from gender perspectives can enhance our understanding of the society and culture of transnational East Asia.

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