OS ALIMENTOS E OS JOGOS DE PODER

Abstract

The history of Food occupies a place in the historiography that thinks about the food preferences of a society. All the symbolic meanings of food, dietary and religious prohibitions, culinary habits, etiquette and behavior at the table go far beyond food, as we have mentalities registered in all these actions. Sitting at the table for a meal is the representation of a microcosm of a society, and can even express issues of class, gender and power. This article seeks to find, between the lines of a kitchen, the meaning that food can have and the possibility of oppression that can be engendered in one of the most primitive and common acts for the human species, which is eating. We will have as a source for analysis a behavior manual, a book published in the 1970s in Brazil, a book entirely aimed at a female audience.