Gendered Food Practices from Seed to Waste

In nearly all societies gender has been, and continues to be, central in defining roles and responsibilities related to the production, manufacturing, provisioning, eating, and disposal of food. The 2016 Yearbook of Women's History presents a collection of new contributions that look into the diversity of these gendered food-related practices to uncover new insights into the shifting relations of gender across food systems. Authors explore changing understandings and boundaries of food-related activities at the intersection of food and gender, across time and space. Look out for intriguing contributions that range from insights into the lives of market women in late medieval food trades in the Low Countries, the practices of activist women in the garbage movement of prewar Tokyo, the way grain storage technologies affect women in Zimbabwe, through to the impact of healthy eating blogs in the digital age.    

Contents: Editorial   Introduction: BETTINA BOCK/JESSICA DUNCAN, Gendered Food Practices from Seed to Waste   INGRID DE ZWARTE/EVELIEN WALHOUT, Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science. Interview with Marietje Van Winter   Growing:  FENNEKE REYSOO/SUON SINY, 'In The Forest We Had Plenty'. Gender, Food Culture and Diet Change in Rural Cambodia (Kampong Thom Province 1995-2015)   PRIYA RAJALALKSHMI CHANDRASEKARAN, 'The Sadder I Am, The More I Laugh ...' Conflicting Values of Strenght and Beauty for Women in Uttarakhand, India   IVY KEN/BENJAMÍN ELIZALDE, 'We Began To See That We Were Valuable'. Rural Chilean Women's Transformation from Depressed Wives to Organic Farmers   Storing: LOVENESS K. NYANGA/MOIRA NAGRU/MEMORY KACHAMBWA/FELIX MADYA/SYLVIA CHAWANDA/LUCIA RAVIRO MANEMA/CHARLENE PELLSAH AMBALI/CATHRINE CHIDEWE, Maize Grain Aflatoxin Contamination Reduction Technologies. Opportunities for Gender Transformation in Shamva and Makoni Distructs, Zimbabwe   Selling: JANNA COOMANS, Policing Female Food Vendors in the Late Medieval Netherlands   Dissemination and Teaching: JACQUES DANE, Healthy Hygienic Conditions and Daily Nutritious Meals. Teaching Domestic Science In and Outside the Dutch Classroom, 1880 to 1930   EMILY J.H. CONTOIS, Healthy Food Blogs. Creating New Nutririon Knowledge at the Crossroads of Science, Foodie Lifestyle, and Gender Identities   Valuing: ANKE NIEHOF/STEFAN WAHLEN, Moralities of Sharing and Caring. Gender and Food in the Moral Household Economy   SYLVIA HOLLA/ANTIA WIERSMA, Serving Morality on a Platter. Moral Imperatives and Cultural Repertoires in Writings on Food in the Dutch Women's magazine Margriet   Disposing: REBECCA TOMPKINS, ‘Our Mission as Women’: COOPERATION between Women's Groups and City Authoraties in the Garbage Campaign of Prewar Tokyo   Summaries   About the Authors

'De relatie tussen vrouwen en voedsel is sterk maar complex, en vaak contradictorisch. De recentste editie van het Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis ontleedt die relatie op kritische wijze, vertrekkende vanuit alledaagse voedselpraktijken, van zaad tot afval. De "cyclische" samenhang, de intersectionaliteit van gender-, generatie-, raciale en klassenrelaties, en het expliciteren van vaak onzichtbare agency in tijd- en plaatsgebonden contexten brengt het Jaarboek op smaak. Het globaal historisch analysekader mag sterker gekruid. [...] Ondanks enkele zeer degelijke historische analyses lijkt een overkoepelend globaal en historisch kader voor de analyse van de politieke economie te ontbreken. [...] Eerder dan een gendergevoelig sausje, serveert het Jaarboek een inspirerende cocktail van feministisch onderzoek dat bijdraagt tot radicaal nieuwe recepten op het snijpunt van voedsel, gender, ras en klasse.' Hanne Cottyn in: Historica/2 (2017) p. 31

Gesignaleerd in: Historica 2017/1, p. 35.