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Controlling Women’S Appetites: Food And Femininity In Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Murray
Controlling Women’S Appetites: Food And Femininity In Victorian Literature, Elizabeth Murray
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This project contributes to the growing field of feminist food studies by examining Victorian women’s relationships to food. I argue that beginning at a young age Victorian middle-class girls and women had to learn to regulate their appetites and eating as a way of performing “proper” Victorian femininity. Chapter one explains why the Victorian period, the middle-class, and women are apt subjects for a feminist food studies exploration of literature and culture. The second chapter discusses non-fiction advice literature that includes guidance about how middle-class girls and women should eat and control their bodies as part of their performance of …