Women's Food Matters

Abstract

Women's Food Matters"This groundbreaking interdisciplinary feminist study offers a new perspective on how, and why, women's food matters throughout history and in our contemporary world. As one of the first studies to combine a focus on food production, processing and cooking, on food cultures and food systems, Swinbank puts women's knowledge and creativity at center stage in the reproduction and transformation of culture and agriculture. Women's Food Matters provides a theoretically rich contribution that is jargon-free, making it an appropriate choice for classes at any level, as well as for the general reader. Destined to 'stir the pot' of contemporary food studies.

Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine the Sustainable Extension of Rural Food Preparation Techniques

“…According to past tradition, women are masters of traditional food preparation techniques and knowledge, which are transmitted by grandmothers and mothers to their daughters and granddaughters through generations. Via this method, culinary knowledge has been accumulated and transmitted for centuries [1,7]. Shariff et al [18] pointed out that mothers are the main promoters of traditional cuisine and culinary learning to the next generation and students of food preparation techniques [9].…”

“…According to Shariff et al [18], women play a critical role in rural development. Traditional rural food preparation techniques are mainly transmitted by women [7,19]; hence, this study aimed to understand the intention of rural women in the sustainable extension of rural food preparation techniques. In the current work, the TPB by Ajzen [14] was used as a study foundation, and the architecture of this study comprised the results of related studies on the sustainable extension of food preparation techniques [10,11,[32][33][34] (Figure 1).…”

“…Cooking at home is a gendered behavior naturally attributed to women as a part of care work in heterosexual families [6]. Women transmit and store recipes between different generations through oral and written means [7,8]. However, mothers may be unable to teach culinary techniques to the next generation due to the decreasing skills of home cooks [9].…”