Gender, feminism and food studies

dc.contributor.authorLewis, Desiree
dc.date.accessioned15/02/2017 15:26
dc.date.available15/02/2017 15:26
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractPolicy 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.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHETen_US
dc.identifier.citationLewis, D. (2015). Gender, feminism and food studies. African Security Review, 24(4): 414-429.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1024-6029
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2532
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2015.1090115
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article published available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2015.1090115
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectFood securityen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.titleGender, feminism and food studiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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