a qualitative study of meaning significances of sood and eating among women

eating, as a way for body management reproduces a social function and meaning beyond itsbiological performances. thus, it’s meaning has been transformed from a bodily need to afundamental element in expression and narrativeness of social identity and social positions.the main question of this paper targets the ways women reconstruct and reinterpret theirsocial positions through food and eating. field operation of the research is conductedaccording to the ethnographic method. data of research gathered through semi-structuredinterview technique and the data analyzed by grounded theory. the findings, based oninterviewing with 30 women informants, demonstrated fundamental changes in their lifeworldand subjective orientation to food and eating. according to their perspective, food andeating is interpreted as obviating starvation, simplicity, operational, aesthetics and stylizationsignificances among women.