Gender and food : from production to consumption and after

• Pubblicazione: United Kingdom : , : Emerald, , 2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 293 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.4
• Soggetto topico: Women's studies; Food habits
• Altri autori: SegalMarcia Texler <1940-> DemosVasilikie P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Introduction to Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After; Our Personal Interest in Food; Vicky; Marcia; Overview of the Volume; Gender, Food, and Social Change; Eating in Sickness and in Health; Food: Preparing and Serving it; Observations Regarding Methods and Themes; Methods; Intersectionality; Caring/Emotional Work; Policy Implications; Closing Thoughts on Gender and Food; Notes; Acknowledgments; References ; Part I: Gender, Food and Social Change Food Trends through Two Generations among Saami in Arctic Fennoscandia; Situating the Gendered Division of Food Practices; Globalism before Its Time; Women's Food Practices Two Generations Ago; Traditional Foodways among the Nomadic Saami; Traditional Foodways among the Settled Saami; Jumping Ahead Two Generations: Women's Changing Roles in the Ecology of Food; Contemporary Food Distribution Patterns; "Meals" and "Dishes," Revisited; The Year in Terms of Food Acquisition; Strangers and Hospitality, Visiting and Trading Partners ; Global Meets Local and Vice-Versa References; Three Sisters from the Outer Boroughs: Class, Reproduction, and Food in the Early 1940's through the Mid-1950's; Theory; The Working Class; The Sisters in the Paid and Unpaid Labor Force; Their Husbands; Intersectionality; Food Production and Consumption in Context; The Beginnings; Food and the Road from Kosher Cooking; Our Grandmother; Nuclear and Extended Family Living in Summer and Winter; Winter Food at Aunt Ida's; Winter Suppers at Aunt Paulie's and Aunt Doris's Apartments; Company; Eating Out; Summers in Rockaway; Extended Family Living ; The Division of Labor Summer Guests; Political Economy; Government Regulation and Food during World War II; The OPA; The End of the Rockaway Years; The Move to the Suburbs and the Beginning of a Middle-Class Lifestyle; Food after World War II and the Growth of Monopoly Capital; The Growth of Supermarkets; Eating Style; Uneven Development in Food Preparation; A Short Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Traditional Provisioning Responsibilities of Women in Northern Ghana; Gender and Land among the Dagomba of Northern Ghana; Conceptual Framework; Methodology; Study Area ; Reconstruction of Tradition in Relation to Women's Land Use Modes of Access to Farm Land; Traditional Modes of Access; Lineage; Marriage; Widows and Inheritance; Other Men in the Community; Access to Economic Trees; Contemporary Modes of Access; Land Markets; The Land Administration Project; Government Irrigation Schemes; The Farmer's Union; Supervisory Farmers; Women's Land Access: Change and Continuity; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Access to Opportunity: A Case Study of Street Food Vendors in Ghana's Urban Informal Economy ; Past Approaches to Gender, Development, and the Informal Economy
• Sommario/riassunto: Volume 22 explores the complex relationships between gender and food in a variety of locations and time periods using a range of research methods. Authors show that gender inequality and mens 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 childrens 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and food
• ISBN: 1-78635-053-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811216103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in gender research ; ; v. 22.