Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

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Gender Norms and Food Behavior

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_458-1
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Synonyms

Body; Cooking; Dieting; Eating; Economic; Farming; Fat; Femininity; Masculinity; Nutrition; Obesity; Sustainability

Introduction

Hilde Lindemann (2000) points out that philosophical theories are often based on a flawed picture of society in which the private sphere is utterly isolated from the public sphere – a distinction going back to John Stuart Mill – and what is done in the private sphere is often erroneously considered no fit subject for issues of ethics or justice, certainly not of politics. A classic example is that caregiving by family and friends is seen as a matter of personal obligation but not of justice or politics (feminist treatments of dependency work critique this stance). Like caregiving, many food behaviors occur within this private sphere as people cook meals, grow vegetables in small gardens for supplementation or subsistence, consume meals, or keep food animals for subsistence use or informal trading of eggs and milk. Such “private” food behaviors occur...

Keywords

Food Production Public Sphere Food Preparation Gender Norm Private Sphere 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Philosophy, College of Arts and SciencesSouthern Illinois University – EdwardsvilleEdwardsvilleUSA