Food, consumption and the body in contemporary women's fiction / Sarah Sceats.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

viii, 213 pages ; 24 cm

The food of love; mothering, feeding, eating, and desire -- Cannibalism and Carter: fantasies of omnipotence -- Eating, starving and the body: Doris Lessing and others -- Sharp appetites: Margaret Atwood's consuming politics -- Food and manners: Roberts and Ellis -- Social eating: identity, communion and difference.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-209) and index.