SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - I Am Canadian, Canadian Identity, Starbucks
Document Summary
Scholars have not ignored the production aspect of food (production associated with economy generally masculine), but have historically ignored consumption research (consumption associated with the home, which is generally feminine). There was an idea that women"s work was not important enough to be in scholarly work, but there has been a developmental understanding to study both together. In the past, eating was considered to be too basic, too primitive and in order for us to distance ourselves from the incivility of eating, society created eating manners and rituals (to make eating more civilized) You are what you eat it tells us about class/ethnicity etc. With different fields of study that can be interdisciplinary serving to understand influences as to why people eat certain foods. Food studies - there are various interdisciplinary approaches to food studies (i. e. anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, nutrition, ecology etc. )
