Writing the meal

"In most cultures, women are in charge of meals and the rituals and customs surrounding meals. Writing The Meal explores the importance of dinners and other meals in fiction by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and other women writing at the turn of the twentieth century. Diane McGree proposes that the depiction of meals has particular significance and resonance for women writers, and that these presentations of meals reflect larger concerns about women's domestic and public roles in a time of social and cultural change."--BOOK JACKET.