Applying the insights of feminist scholarship to the study of food, these essays consider women and food in the context of the marketplace, history, representations and resistances. Avakian (women's studies, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Haber (former curator of books at the Schlesinger Library) introduce the volume with a history of scholarly writing on food and an overview of feminist food studies. The other contributors attend to the ways in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, colonialism, and capitalism have shaped and been shaped by the production of food. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)