SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Commodity Fetishism, Child Labour
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Why have scholars ignored food habits in the past: scholars have not ignored the production aspect of food (production associated with economy usually masculine), but they have ignored consumption aspect (consumption associated with the home, which is usually feminine), there was the notion that women"s work was not important enough to be in scholarly work, but there have been developments in understanding how to study both together. Why bias: traditional way of thinking, involves the thinking mind and non thinking body, we need to feed the mind and leave the body at the door, need to separate the mind and the body, the body is associated with the uncivilized, mind body dualism, the idea that our mind and body are separate and that we need to keep them separate for better scholarship, there is the idea that the body is lower; that its primitive.