Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies

Authors

  • Jennifer Brady Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Barbara Parker
  • Susan Belyea
  • Elaine Power

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.308

Keywords:

feminist food studies, gender, intersectionality

Abstract

The idea for this special issue emerged from the enthusiastic response to a day-long series of sessions on feminist food studies that were held during the joint conference of the Canadian Association of Food Studies, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, in 2016, in Scarborough, Ontario. The sessions brought together feminist food scholars from across Canada and the U.S. to share their work and to collectively claim space within the conference program to address feminist perspectives in food studies. For us, and the many presenters and attendees at the sessions, the opportunity to gather together and savour more than the usual one or two conference sessions devoted to feminist perspectives was a long-awaited pleasure that did not disappoint. The presenters and audience members illuminated many of the issues, complexities, and perspectives that an explicitly feminist lens brings to food studies. The energy and excitement that infused the room as each presenter shared their work filled our plates that day.

Author Biography

Jennifer Brady, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Jennifer Brady is a dietitian and new faculty member in Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her work draws on critical and feminist theory to explore food, eating, the body, health, and nutrition.
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Published

2018-02-16

How to Cite

Brady, J., Parker, B., Belyea, S., & Power, E. (2018). Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies. Canadian Food Studies La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 5(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.308

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): Special Issue: A spotlight on feminist food studies

Section

Editorial

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