SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

Document Summary

Foodwork the efforts involved in food production, procurement, preparation, service, and clean-up. It may be paid (as employment) or unpaid (in the household). Unpaid foodwork is generally performed by women in the context of caring for members of their families and kinship networks. Food nourishes the physical body; however, food is never just about nutrition. Peoples relationships with food are felt intimately; at the same time these relationships are partly constituted by the power that society allocates or denies to men and women through their access to and control of one essential resource: food". The singular preoccupation with food measuring food by its nutrient composition: nutritionism assumes that food"s role in promoting bodily health is the only one that really matters. Professionals have caused the dominant popular culture discourse about food, dividing food into healthy or unhealthy" food. Emphasizes individual responsibilities for security and well-being, cutting back welfare state activities, favours collective government action.