Women's food matters : stirring the pot / Vicki A. Swinbank.
Swinbank, Vicki A., author.
2021
GT2850
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Title Women's food matters : stirring the pot / Vicki A. Swinbank.
Author Swinbank, Vicki A., author.
ISBN 9783030703967 (electronic bk.)
3030703967 (electronic bk.)
9783030703950
3030703959
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70396-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-70396-7 doi
Call Number GT2850
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.1/2
Summary "This groundbreaking interdisciplinary feminist study offers a new perspective on how, and why, womens food matters throughout history and in our contemporary world. As one of the first studies to combine a focus on food production, processing and cooking, on food cultures and food systems, Swinbank puts womens knowledge and creativity at center stage in the reproduction and transformation of culture and agriculture. Womens Food Matters provides a theoretically rich contribution." David E. Sutton, Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University "Radical feminism has just taken its long-awaited seat at the food studies table. In Womens Food Matters, Vicki Swinbank reminds us that women's inter-generational food knowledge its production, preparation and consumption is at the heart of most food cultures. Womens Food Matters is consistently engaging, informative and persuasively argued, both taking us back to the wonderful memories of being in grandmas kitchen, and into the diverse and widely-politicised world of the global food system." Natalie Jovanovski, Lecturer and DECRA Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Australia This book details how women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation. This link, which applies cross-culturally, has seldom been fully acknowledged or celebrated. The role of women in this is usually taken for granted and therefore often rendered unimportant or invisible. This book presents a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and comprehensive feminist analysis of womens central role in many aspects of the worlds food systems and cultures. This central role is examined through a range of lenses, namely cross-cultural, intergenerational, and socially diverse. This book will be of value to scholars in gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and food studies. Vicki Swinbank is an independent researcher and writer. She obtained a PhD in 2008 from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests focus on feminist politics and food issues. She has published on issues including food entitlement as a human right; the debate within feminism on vegetarianism; the sexual politics of cooking; and food and migrant identity
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Introduction
A feminist history of cooking : from hunter-gatherer to peasant cooking
Culinary hierarchy : from peasant cooking to 'haute cuisine'
The sexual politics of domestic cooking
Cultural memory and female intergenerational culinary culture
A history of the industrialisation of food and its impact on women
Threats and solutions to biodiversity, cultural culinary diversity and food sovereignty
Women feed the world : biodiversity and culinary diversity/food security and food sovereignty
Conclusion.

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