Gender and food : from production to consumption and after / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos.

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Introduction to Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After -- Food Trends through Two Generations among Saami in Arctic Fennoscandia -- Three Sisters from the Outer Boroughs: Class, Reproduction, and Food in the Early 1940s through the Mid-1950s -- Traditional Provisioning Responsibilities of Women in Northern Ghana -- Access to Opportunity: A Case Study of Street Food Vendors in Ghana's Urban Informal Economy -- From Unhealthy Satiety to Health-Oriented Eating: Narratives of the Mediterranean Diet, Managing a Chronic Illness -- Empowering Women, Strengthening Children: A Multi-Level Analysis of Gender Inequality and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries -- Gluten-Free Eating and Gendered Feeding Work in Families Affected by Celiac Disease -- Women's Income and Healthy Eating Perception -- Emotional Labor, Food Provisioning and Local Food System Engagement -- The Culinary "Food Chain": Private and Personal Chefs Negotiate Identity and Status in the Culinary Profession -- The Physical and Emotional Contours of Feeding Labor by School Food Service Employees -- Subversive Cooking in Liberal Feminism, 1963- 985.

"Authors show that gender inequality and men's dominance are implicit or explicit, and that in times of both stability and change, the burden of many if not most aspects of food production and provisioning falls upon women and is an integral part of the care work they perform. Food is shown to be related to societal structures of power, resources and labor markets, as well as households, bodies and emotions. Health, well-being and sustainability emerge as major tropes in the economic and geographic north and south from the arctic to the equator and places between. Western cultural trends regarding specialized diets as they relate to health and illness are examined from a gender lens as is children's nutrition worldwide. Gender inequality as it affects the struggle for access to land, the affordability of food, and its nutritional value is identified as a major social policy issue"--Provided by publisher.

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