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Gastropoetics of Sex: Gluttony, Lust and Excess in Late Nationalist India / Berger, Rachel

Berger, Rachel	Journal Article
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In this paper, I explore the ways in which queer sex acts and orientations come to be coded through other modes of signifying excess in colonial and nationalist discourse. I explore the way in which food and sex are held on a continuum that ties gluttony to abstinence, creating the standards for respectable sexuality and a map for flouting them. Fundamentally, I look at how sex and food are conflated, especially when enjoyed or imagined in ways outside the norm of conventional morality. Moreover, I examine the terms through which this correlation is translated into a broader framework for thinking about the body in its private and shared forms.

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Nationalism ; South Asia ; Hindi Literature ; Food Studies ; Queer Theory ; History of Sexuality

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Gender, feminism and food studies: a critical review / Lewis, Desiree

Lewis, Desiree	Article
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Policy research and scholarship on food has rapidly increased in recent decades. The attention to ‘gender' within this work appears to signal important practical and academic efforts to mainstream gendered understandings of food consumption, distribution and production into expansive conceptualisations of human security. This article argues that the gender-related work on food has wide-ranging and often troubling political and theoretical foundations and implications. Often growing out of knowledge regimes for managing social crises and advancing neo-liberal solutions, much gender and food security work provides limited interventions into mainstream gender-blind work on the nexus of power struggles, food resources and globalisation. A careful analysis of knowledge production about gender and food is therefore crucial to understanding how and why feminist food studies often transcends and challenges dominant forms of scholarship and research on food security. This article's critical assessment of what food security studies in South Africa has entailed at the regional level and in global terms also focuses on the methodological and theoretical feminist interventions that can stimulate rigorous conceptual, research and practical attention to what has come to be understood as food sovereignty.

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South Africa ; Food Security ; Feminist ; Food Sovereignty ; Food Studies ; Western Cape

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