Gender and Food - A Critical Look At the Food System

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Growing
Chapter 3: Shopping
Chapter 4: Cooking
Chapter 5: Eating
Chapter 6: Conclusion
References
Index

About the author

Shelley L. Koch is associate professor of sociology at Emory & Henry College. She is the author of A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice, and Conflict and co-editor of Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Summary

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

Additional text

Koch skillfully connects a looming crisis within our food system to its social counterpart, gender inequality. The book’s message is loud and clear: transforming the food system and its problems requires nothing short of truly recognizing and transforming how we think about gender.

Product details

• Authors: Shelley Koch, Shelley L. Koch, Koch Shelley L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9781442257733
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5773-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Gender Lens; Gender Lens
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Cultural studies: food and society