Arctic rolls and gender roles

Female and male eating disorders in Karen Duve’s Regenroman and other texts

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ID21724847
AuthorsHeike Bartel (0000-0001-7534-6573, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume20
Issue2
Pages225-248
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Romance Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1473-3536 • E-ISSN: 1752-2331
PublisherLiverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3828/jrs.2020.14
OpenAlexW3040446785
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article examines disordered eating in men and women. It discusses the novel Regenroman (1999) [Rain (2002)] by German writer Karen Duve focusing on gender roles, food consumption, and the interconnection between female bulimia and male binge eating in the two protagonists. The article aims to show that the highly gendered issue of eating and wider aspects of food consumption in contemporary societies require an approach that engages with the fundamental link between perceptions of both male and female eating behaviour as part of a broader construction of ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’. Duve’s fictional exploration in Regenroman and in other texts employs realism counterposed by parody and the grotesque, and undermined by shifting, conflicting perspectives. Her texts offer, this article argues, the discursive space to explore the topic of disordered and gendered eating innovatively

Aesthetics · Art · Femininity · Masculinity · Sociology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology

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