ENST 4310 Food and Gender
Students engage in the transdisciplinary field of food studies by examining the issues, complexities, and thoughts at the intersection of food and gender studies. Students will analyze how food production, consumption, and accessibility compounded by environmental threats influence and are influenced by intersecting forms of sociocultural difference such as gender, sexuality, race, and class within a local and global context. We will focus on food and power to identify and problematize beliefs, practices, and institutions that inform our relationship to food to understand ongoing imperialism, colonialism, and globalization processes. We will explore questions of food in relation to patriarchy, feminism, water, seeds, soil, labor, cookbooks, sustainability, and policy.
Offered
Fall and Spring