Women's Food Matters

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, interdiscplinary and comprehensive feminist analysis of women's central role in many aspects of the world's food systems and cultures. This central role is examined through a range of lenses, namely cross-cultural, intergenerational, and socially diverse.

Focuses on the many positive aspects of women's relationship to food, including the rich history of women's intergenerational food knowledge, and women's central role in the development and maintenance of food systems and cultures Emphasises that women's crucial role in developing and maintaining sustainable food systems has not been sufficiently recognized Acknowledges the central role of women in the development and preservation of food cultures

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: A brief feminist history of cooking.- Chapter2: 'High' and 'low' cuisine: the development of culinary hierarchy.- Chapter 3: A History of the Industrialisation of Food and Its Impact on Women.- Chapter 4: Threats to Biodiversity, Culinary Diversity and Food Sovereignty.- Chapter 5: Women feed the world: biodiversity and culinary diversity.- Chapter 6: Cooking as an Expression of Female Inter-Generational Food Culture.- Chapter 7: The Sexual Politics of Domestic Cooking.