Culinaria

A dynamic collective contribution to the field of critical feminist food studies.Over the last two decades, feminist food studies has grown significantly. Culinaria carves out new lines of intersectional and transnational analysis in this evolving field. In nineteen original essays, contributors from across the continental United States to South Africa and Pakistan show how gender, race, class, geography, and religion all shape the ways women use food. At once deeply personal and political, the stories here reflect on questions of community making, displacement, home, and loss, continually revealing food finding, making, consuming, and sharing to be a complex, culturally nuanced praxis. With a foreword by Psyche Williams-Forson and an afterword by Meredith E. Abarca, Culinaria will appeal to students and scholars of food studies, women's and gender studies, ethnic studies, and more.

Farha Bano Ternikar is director of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Le Moyne College. She is the author of Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class: Lifestyle Consumption Beyond Halal and Hijab. Janaka B. Lewis is Associate Dean of Curriculum and Student Success and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation. Stephanie Y. Evans is Professor of Black Women's Studies in the Institute for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University. Her numerous books include Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books; Black Women's Yoga History: Memoirs of Inner Peace; and Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons (coedited with Andrea D. Domingue and Tania D. Mitchell), all published by SUNY Press.