Lisa Heldke also has what I think are cool books: an older anthology, *Cooking,
Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food*, and more
recently *Exotic
Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer. *

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Emanuela Bianchi <[log in to unmask]>
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>  From a more cultural studies perspective there's the excellent *Racial
> Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century* by Kyla Wazana Tompkins.
> She maintains a useful site about all things pertaining to the book here:
> http://racialindigestion.tumblr.com
>
> Also there's a great chapter in Lauren Berlant's *Cruel Optimism*, "Slow
> Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)"
>
> More "philosophical" texts include:
>
> Susan Bordo, *Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body *(1993)
> (A classic)
>
> Both of these are great too:
> Doris Witt – “What (N)ever Happened to Aunt Jemima”
> Cressida Heyes – “Foucault Goes to Weightwatchers”
>
> Hope this helps,
> Emma
>
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am looking for recommendations of philosophical approaches to thinking
> about the relations between food and cultural identity. Thanks for your
> time.
>
> Debra
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