Holy Feast and Holy Fast

Bynum, Caroline Walker

University of California Press, 1988

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Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh.

ISBN-13
9780520063297
ISBN-10
0520063295
Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1988
Publication date
1988-01-07
Pages
464
Dimensions
229x153x31
Weight
742