Feminism and Food: Global, Local, and Everything in Between
In this course we will examine food politics and food justice movements through the lenses of feminist and queer studies—considering how food illuminates broader raced, classed, gendered, sexual, and ablest ideologies. Throughout, we will center the global flows that make possible industrialized food systems, examining food politics in the U.S. as intimately connected to broader global issues. In so doing, we will grapple with the problems of industrialized food production as well as the limits of food justice movements. Topics include gendered labor of food production, embodiment and “excess,” migration, and food’s role in creating racialized and queer subcultures. (not open to students who have taken GSFS 0430). 3 hrs. lect.