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Feminist Food Studies

Intersectional Perspectives
This expansive collection enriches the field of food studies with a feminist intersectional perspective,
addressing the impacts that race, ethnicity, class, and nationality have on nutritional customs, habits,
and perspectives. Throughout the text, international scholars explore three areas in feminist food
studies: the socio-cultural, the corporeal, and the material. The textbook’s chapters intersect as they
examine how food is linked to hegemony, identity, and tradition, while contributors offer diverse
perspectives that stem from biology, museum studies, economics, popular culture, and history. This
text’s engaging writing style and timely subject-matter encourage student discussions and forward-
looking analyses on the advancement of food studies. With a unique multidisciplinary and global
perspective, this vital resource is well-suited to undergraduate students of food studies, nutrition,
gender studies, sociology, and anthropology. **FEATURES**

- includes pedagogical features such as discussion questions and a glossary

- ensures a feminist intersectional approach to food studies to enhance, enliven, and advance food
studies in innovative, creative, and radical ways

Author Information
Barbara Parker
**Barbara Parker** is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lakehead University. She teaches in the
areas of food, gender, and health; the sociology of nutrition; social justice; and qualitative research
methods.
Jennifer Brady
**Jennifer Brady** is an Assistant Professor of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent
University. She teaches courses on ecological perspectives of food; nutrition education in communities;
and food, health, and social policy.
Elaine Power
**Elaine Power** is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s
University, where she teaches on topics such as food systems; critical weight studies; and qualitative
research methods.
Susan Belyea
**Susan Belyea** is the director of a women’s centre at Queen’s University and teaches courses on
social and political responses to food insecurity and agriculture and the environment.

Reviews
“One of the major contributions of _Feminist Food Studies_ is that it explores intersectionality through
refined angles at both the theoretical and the empirical levels. In a clear and accessible manner, every
chapter of the book experiments with moving intersectionality to ‘unexplored places.’ The result is a
fascinating and enriching journey into feminist scholarship and its multiple connections with food.”
Subjects
—Dr. Carla Guerrón Montero, University of Delaware
Sociology of Health “_Feminist Food Studies_ assembles new scholarship on food and feminism. The collection takes up
Nutrition an intersectional lens that is well-defined in the introductory chapters for new readers. The authors pay
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies homage to the anti-colonial and social justice roots of feminist food studies as a field, a commitment
that is enacted and built upon in every chapter. Established scholars and new readers alike will find
ideas to forage for that nourishes a critical feminist consciousness about food studies.”
Approx. 310 pages
—Dr. Jennifer L. Johnson, Thorneloe University at Laurentian
6.75 x 9.75 inches
August 2019 Table of Contents
ISBN: 9780889616097 **Foreword**
_Psyche Williams-Forson_

**Introduction: This Is What Feminist Food Studies Looks Like**

Available at: _Barbara Parker, Jennifer Brady, Elaine Power, and Susan Belyea_
https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/feminist-food-studies
**Chapter 1: Critiquing Hegemony, Creating Food, Crafting Justice:** Cultivating an Activist Feminist
Food Studies
_Alice Julier_
To request a review copy:
info@canadianscholars.ca **Chapter 2: “The Bees Wore Little Fuzzy Yellow Pants”:** Feminist Intersections of Animal and Human
416-929-2774 Performativity in an Urban Community Garden
_Teresa Lloro-Bidart_

**Chapter 3: How Veggie Vlogging Looks Like:** Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class in Western
Mainstream Veganism
_Daniela Pirani and Ella Fegitz_

**Chapter 4: Is Veganism a Queer Food Practice?**

_Alissa Overend_

**Chapter 5: Because… “Obesity”:** Reframing Blame in Food Studies

_Jennifer Brady, Jacqui Gingras, and Katie LeBesco_

**Chapter 6: “Lose like a Man”:** Gender and the Constraints of Self-Making in Weight Watchers Online

_Emily Contois_
_Delores Phillips_

**Chapter 9: Low-Income Mothers and the Alternative Food Movement:** An Intersectional Approach
_Blake Martin, Mari Kate Mycek, Sinikka Elliott, and Sarah Bowen_

**Chapter 10:"Waiting to Be Fed": Reading Memories of Hunger in the Tsilhqot’ Land Claim Trial
Transcripts and Tracey Lindberg's _Birdie_**
_Lauren McGuire-Wood_

**Chapter 11: We’re All Intersectional Now:** Representational Intersectionality in Food Displays in
Melbourne’s Immigration Museum
_Elaine Swan, Deana Leahy, Emily Gray, Sian Supski, and Adele Wessell_

**Chapter 12:** Fermentation and the Possibility of Reimagining Rationality

_Maya Hey_

**Glossary**

**Contributor Biographies**

**Index**

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