Course Description
Examination of ways in which food relates to gender, race, and class. We will discuss ongoing debates about food insecurity, food production, consumption, and food waste.
Athena Title
Gendered Politics of Food
Non-Traditional Format
Course includes a service-learning project during the semester that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and implementation of the project(s) and may spend time outside of the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning component for approximately 25-50% of overall instructional time.
Prerequisite
Junior or senior standing or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
In this course, students will be expected to: 1) Discuss and critically examine interdisciplinary studies of food and how gender, race, and class have been historically connected to food practices and policies. 2) Explain and analyze the main arguments in ecological feminism and how they relate to issues of food production and consumption. 3) Define environmental racism and its impact on food production and environmental health. 4) Identify contributions made by members of the environmental and food justice movements. 5) Organize themselves into a group and work together on a subject of interest that is closely related to the course and service-learning.
Topical Outline
I. Ecological Terms, Food Justice Studies, Ecological Feminisms II. Women’s Material, Socio-cultural, and Corporeal Relationships with Food, Local, and Global Food Systems III. Sustainability, Food Production, Consumption, and Case Studies, Food Deserts, Food Insecurity, Food Waste III. Environmental Racism, Agriculture, Workers' Rights IV. Environmental Health and Food
Syllabus
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