Centre for Studies in Food Security

Selected Bibliography: Gender

Academic Journals
Annual Review of Anthropology
Gender and Society
Health and Social Care in the Community
Journal of Intercultural Studies
Journal of Planning Education and Research

Presentations
Lessa, Iara (2007). Women's identities and food: Practices of settlement and resistance in Immigrant Toronto

Wu, Anne (2007). Eating Culture and Culinary Practice

Liu, Willa (2007). Food-related Household Work and Learning among New Chinese Immigrant Women

Article Suggestions
Allen. P.  & Sachs, C. (2007). Women and Food Chains: The Gendered Politics of Food . International Journal of Sociology of Food and Agriculture.  15, 1.

Bailey C. & Pain R. (2001). Geographies of infant feeding and access to primary health care. Health and Social Care in the Community 9, 5, 309-317.

Hartley, C. (2001). Letting ourselves go: Making room for the fat body in feminist scholarship. In Braziel, J. & LeBesco, K. (eds). Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.60-73.

hooks, b. (1992). Eating the Other: desire and resistance. In Black Looks: Race and Representation. Toronto: Between The Lines. pp. 21-39.

Huff, J. (2001). A 'horror of corpulence': Interrogating Bantingism and mid-nineteenth-century fat-phobia. In Braziel, J. & LeBesco, K. (eds). Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.39-59.

Inness, S. (2006). Thin is not in: Two Fat Ladies and gender stereotypes on the Food Network. In Secret Ingredients: Race, Class and Gender at the Dinner Table. New York: Palgrave MacMillan / H.B. Fenn, pp.169-188.

Narayan, U. (1997). Eating cultures: incorporation, identity, and Indian food. In Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminisms. London and New York: Routldege, pp. 119-188.

Sheridan, S. (2000). Eating the other: food and cultural difference in the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1960s. Journal of Intercultural Studies 21.3: 319.

Sobal, J. (2005). Men, meat and marriage: models of masculinity. Food and Foodways 13, 1-2, pp. 135-158.

Supski, S. (2006). It Was Another Skin: The kitchen as home for Australian post-war immigrant women. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 13, 02, p. 133.

Van-Esterik, P. (2002). Contemporary trends in infant feeding research. Annual Review of Anthropology 31: 257-278.

Wall, G. (2001). Moral constructions of motherhood in breastfeeding discourse. Gender and Society, 15, 4, 592-610.

Wekerle, G. (2004). Food justice movements: policy, planning and networks. Journal of Planning Education and Research,  23, 4, 378-386.

Book Suggestions
Anderson, E. (2005) Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture. New York: New York University Press.

Barndt, D. (ed) (1999). Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food, and Globalization. Toronto: Second Story Press / U of T Press.

Bell, D. & Valentine, G. (1997) Consuming Geographies: We are Where We Eat. London & New York: Routledge.

Esquivel, L. (1994) Like Water for Chocolate: a Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies Translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books / Random House.

Inness, S. (2006) Secret Ingredients: Race, Class and Gender at the Dinner Table. New York: Palgrave MacMillan / H.B. Fenn.

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (2004) Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems. New York : Berghahn Books.

Research-based Organizations, Institutions, Centres
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Gender and Food Security

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Gender and Household Food Security

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