Gender and Food

Shelley L. Koch is associate professor of sociology at Emory & Henry College. She is the author of A Theory of Grocery Shopping: Food, Choice, and Conflict and co-editor of Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: GrowingChapter 3: ShoppingChapter 4: CookingChapter 5: EatingChapter 6: ConclusionReferencesIndex

This comprehensive book shows how gender infuses all aspects of the food system, from the way our food is grown and sold to household divisions of labor to our beliefs about healthy diets and bodies. Koch argues that changes in our food system can occur only once we recognize and start to address the gendered divisions of labor and power that underlie it.