Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System

Name: Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System
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ISBN: 9781442257757

✍️ Koch, Shelley L

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📚 EDITORIAL REVIEW

“This is not a recipe book, so home cooks looking for weeknight dinners will be disappointed. Instead, it suits food studies students, researchers, and curious activists eager to explore how gender dynamics shape the global food system from farm to table.

— Editorial Team

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Koch, Shelley L

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🏛 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 📅 2019 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781442257757

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📝 Description: Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System

Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a framework from which to understand how gender is central to the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

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Eatbook Family editorial team

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This title is strictly academic, focusing on theory rather than technique or narrative. It does not suit home cooks seeking recipes, kitchen tips, or inspirational food writing. Readers expecting a practical guide to cooking will be disappointed; this is a dense theoretical text for those analyzing systemic power dynamics in food production.

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⭐ eatbookfamily.com editorial review Editorial rating 4.3/5

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This is not a recipe book, so home cooks looking for weeknight dinners will be disappointed. Instead, it suits food studies students, researchers, and curious activists eager to explore how gender dynamics shape the global food system from farm to table.

Reader rating

4.2

Based on 1 reviews

Eatbook Family editorial team

This title is strictly academic, focusing on theory rather than technique or narrative. It does not suit home cooks seeking recipes, kitchen tips, or inspirational food writing. Readers expecting a practical guide to cooking will be disappointed; this is a dense theoretical text for those analyzing systemic power dynamics in food production.

❓ Frequently asked questions

No, this is an academic and theoretical examination of the food system rather than a traditional cookbook, so it does not contain recipes, cooking instructions, or food photography.

It is written primarily for students, scholars, and researchers looking for a critical framework to understand sociology, gender studies, and agricultural or food economics.

📖 Who should read this

📜 Historical context

Rooted in sociological scholarship and food systems analysis, this text examines the complex intersections of gender, labor, and power within food production and consumption. It draws on existing theoretical and empirical research to contextualize how societal structures influence every stage of the modern food supply chain.