Gender, feminism and food studies
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Date
2015
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Policy research and scholarship on food has rapidly increased in recent decades. The
attention to 'gender' within this work appears to signal important practical and academic
efforts to mainstream gendered understandings of food consumption, distribution and
production into expansive conceptualisations of human security. This article argues
that the gender-related work on food has wide-ranging and often troubling political
and theoretical foundations and implications. Often growing out of knowledge
regimes for managing social crises and advancing neo-liberal solutions, much gender
and food security work provides limited interventions into mainstream gender-blind
work on the nexus of power struggles, food resources and globalisation. A careful
analysis of knowledge production about gender and food is therefore crucial to understanding
how and why feminist food studies often transcends and challenges dominant
forms of scholarship and research on food security. This article's critical assessment of
what food security studies in South Africa has entailed at the regional level and in global
terms also focuses on the methodological and theoretical feminist interventions that can
stimulate rigorous conceptual, research and practical attention to what has come to be
understood as food sovereignty.
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Gender, Food security, Feminism
Citation
Lewis, D. (2015). Gender, feminism and food studies. African Security Review, 24(4): 414-429.