Introduction to Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After
Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After
ISBN: 978-1-78635-054-1, eISBN: 978-1-78635-053-4
Publication date: 22 August 2016
Abstract
Purpose/approach
This introduction provides an overview of the themes and chapters of this volume.
Research implications
The chapters present original qualitative and quantitative research illustrating the complex relationship between gender and food. The need to understand the relationship intersectionally and in historical context is apparent and provisioning as caring emerges as a major theme.
Practical and social implications
Food is a human right yet it is not always and everywhere available and when it is not always humanly produced and healthful. The fact that food production and consumption is gendered cannot be ignored in the quest for feeding our planet.
Originality/value
The chapter and the volume are intended to illustrate some of the many ways that food and gender are related and to encourage gender scholars to continue to pay attention to food research.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
We appreciate Emma Stevenson, Emerald Publishing Editor, for all the various ways in which she has cheerfully facilitated the publishing process and publicity for the series.
Our advisory board conducted a blind review of abstracts and proposals submitted to us for consideration. We appreciate their careful work in prioritizing these and in offering guidance for the volume.
Citation
Demos, V. and Segal, M.T. (2016), "Introduction to Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After", Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 22), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xiii-xxxiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620160000022009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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