Friday, December 10, 2010

New Course Spring 2011


Selected Topics WS 495 (TR 1:30-2:45)

Have you thought about women workers behind your tomatoes?

Gender relations in Fair Trade coffee?



Interested in local, national, and global food and agricultural issues? Body image and eating disorder? This special topics course examines a range of cultural, socio-economic and political issues related to food, agriculture, and body in the US and how they intersect with race, nation and gender.


Key course themes that are addressed from diverse disciplinary and conceptual frameworks include: nutritional science and home economics; culinary nationalism; corporate control of food and farming; women in alternative food movements; women farmers; governance of the agrifood system; food democracy; food sovereignty, body image; dieting.

T/R 1:30-2:45



Contact Aya Kimura at kimuraa@hawaii.edu