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Food cultures- Food is a feminist issue
Politicising Food With Feminist Tools
Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist
•Disordered eating is (for Orbach) about a desire to hide from male sexual objectification and trivialisation
women can become disconnected from their appetites
"No such thing as a body"
"No such thing as an appetite"
"No such thing as food"
Why is fat a feminist issue?
All women are trained to live in fear of becoming fatl, "fat terrorisml"
higher rates of obesity amongst particular groups of women (especially poor women and women of colour) is a form of environmental injustice
because fat women are subjected to bias, discrimination and abuse (fatphobia)
because public health initiatives aorund "fitness" and "wellness" tend to justify punitive actions
thinking intersectionally about fat as a feminist issue
Has anything changed? From diet to wellness
Has the diet industry been replaced by the wellness industry?
Sexual Politics of Meat
by Carol J Adams, a feminist vegan/ ecofeminist
biggest piece of meat goes to the man of the house
Patriarchal food cultures legitimses meat-eating by associatinf meat with power
different foods are symbollically gendered
women are animalised and animals are feminised in meat-eating food cultures, both become consumabale
sexualised imagery of farmed animals (meat and dairy) is a circulation of misogyny
Meat is King, meat presented "for men" and a source of masculinised power
ideas of getting strength from food
feminism and veganism presented as a threat to the masculine order
The Stone Age Diet (1975) by Walter Voegtlin
Justin Tradeu, constructed as a "soy boy" when he announced his vegetarianism to the public
vegetarianism seen as emasculating for men
Women are animalised, "being treated like meat"
For me this evening, if we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight for our rights pretty soon, we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones. And, I am not a piece of meat.” Lady Gaga in 2010
Is cooking a 'feminine' activity?
proffesional cooking, in resteraunts seen as men's work, frontiers of food culture
michelin stars disproportionately awarded to men
World of professional cooking dominated by men
In US less than 5% of chefs are women – in the UK around 20%