Eating the Ocean

Elspeth Probyn is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and the author of Blush: Faces of Shame and Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Relating Fish and Humans  1
1. An Oceanic Habitus  23
2. Following Oysters, Relating Taste  49
3. Swimming with Tuna  77
4. Mermaids, Fishwives, and Herring Quines: Gendering the More-than-Human  101
5. Little Fish: Eating with the Ocean  129
Conclusion. Reeling it In  159
Notes  165
References  169
Index  183