The female body and food
interweaving and resistance through fruitful images
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https://doi.org/10.47250/intrell.v42i1.p137-148Keywords:
Food. Female Body. Feminism. Ecofeminism. Fruits.Abstract
This work proposes an ecofeminist analysis (Brandão, 2003; Mies;Shiva, 2014) about the connections between the female body and food (Moll, 2021), specially fruits. Through the analysis and comparison of the poems “Invitation”(1984, p. 10-11) by Grace Nichols and “the art of growing” (2017, p. 94-96) by Rupi Kaur, I propose we look at the field of food beyond its nutritional character and see how fruits can be used to produce images capable of re-signifying the sexualization and undermining of the female body In western society.
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