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{"title":"Gender, Food and ‘The Right to the City’ in the Ghanaian Marketplace","authors":"Arianna King","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12672","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article combines ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Coast's Kotokuraba Market with theories of ‘the right to the city’ and historical literature on gender and space in West Africa to highlight the connections between women's food labour and the social production of market space in Ghana. In identifying two critical moments from Ghana's history that exemplify the influence of economic policy on the gender arrangement of the marketplace, this article argues that although women have historically dominated Ghana's public marketplaces, their ‘right to the city’ – the collective and individual rights to determine the form and function of market space – remains out of reach.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43123784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Food and Sovereignty","authors":"Tracey Deutsch,&nbsp;Heidi Gengenbach,&nbsp;Amanda Herbert,&nbsp;Shauna Sweeney","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12673","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12673","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This special issue had its origins in the spring and summer of 2020, a moment in which the stakes of food, gender and sovereignty were particularly visible. Pandemic-related shortages, shutdowns of restaurants, marketplaces and stores and sudden food insecurity for millions of people – all inescapably changed the daily experience of eating and provisioning. To get by, people created new networks to bypass the systems they had counted on in the past, sometimes retreating into their own DIY systems for producing food (e.g., home baking) and sometimes rediscovering local food systems. Food work was one significant source of the increased inequities of care and carework as lockdown made the tasks of cooking, provisioning and feeding that are traditionally considered ‘women's work’ more important, more visible in people's homes and more difficult. For many, these inequities, including barriers to food and precarity of supplies, were not new; they had been facts of life for a long time. In other, often wealthier, communities, the pandemic revealed and accelerated the impossibility of the status quo. It demanded new ways of thinking about food, gender and who has the right to exert authority over them.</p><p>In the USA, where three of the four editors were located, food and sovereignty resonated with special force in the wake of a wave of uprisings and global protests for racial justice following the incendiary and unjust murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed when police were called after an altercation at a corner grocery store. Renewed attention to Elijah McClain's death in Aurora, Colorado the previous year, killed by police and paramedics while he was on a trip to a convenience food store, also reinforced the danger incurred by people of colour in the everyday work of provisioning and sustaining themselves. The uprisings that summer also mobilised food, as networks of mutual aid made food accessible in neighbourhoods that lost, or perhaps never had had, safe food access.</p><p>In Canada, where one of our editors was located and where, in June 2021, the symposium that preceded this special issue was held, the discovery of the unmarked graves of Indigenous children murdered at residential schools – which were state-funded and run by the Catholic church and various Protestant churches – caused us to rethink our themes entirely. Acknowledgement of these centuries of child abuse, in which diet, forced labour, hunger and denial of food nourishing to soul and body were used as tools of cultural genocide, compels all of us to recognise that food and sovereignty were and are routinely, structurally denied to Indigenous peoples. Moreover, as scholars we must think about the ways that colonialism operates not only in the past but also in our midst. Our relationship to history must involve ethical relationships with the people whose stories we claim to write and represent. As recent cases have revealed, ethnic fraud, primarily perpetrated ","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12673","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41521809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender, Pobladoras and Ollas Comunes in Chile: Re-Activating Memory and History in Order to Survive the Coronacrisis","authors":"Hillary Hiner,&nbsp;Anita Peña Saavedra,&nbsp;Alondra Castillo Delgado","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the COVID-19 global pandemic, <i>pobladora</i> women in Valparaiso were crucial in the organisation of their communities and the <i>ollas comunes</i> (common pots). Many observers linked these new ollas comunes to the ones that existed during the Pinochet dictatorship, in this manner citing a politics of gendered memory and local feminist history that allowed them to re-organise in record time. The article explores this comparison, using women's narratives on <i>ollas comunes</i> in the past and the present in order to critically assess their similarities and differences. Additionally, it analyses how, and why, pobladora popular feminist memory regarding food insecurity resistance strategies and <i>ollas comunes</i> is transferred between generations. This article uses interviews done with popular-sector and feminist women in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso during 2020 and 2021, as part of the project, ‘Women's Solidarity Networks Take on COVID-19: the case of Valparaíso, Chile’.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43684314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let Them Eat Peanut Butter! Understanding Obstacles to Women's Embodied Sovereignty Through Peanut-Based Agriculture and Aid in Haiti","authors":"Laura Dudley Jenkins","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12661","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12661","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How did Haiti, where peanuts were once a staple crop often grown, traded, processed and shared by women, reach its contemporary food crisis, when some mothers must feed their children a diet of donated peanut-based nutritional supplements to keep them alive? Case studies of peanuts as food aid in Haiti reveal the ways neoliberalism and disaster capitalism stymie women's embodied sovereignty. This article uses the concept of embodied sovereignty to build on food sovereignty literature, enabling a sharper focus on the bodies that produce, process, feed and eat food, as well as the historical production of gendered food responsibilities, and the life-and-death stakes of sovereign power.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42893676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cathleen D. Cahill, Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transfomed the Suffrage Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Dorothy Sue Cobble, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021). James Keating, Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880–1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019). Einav Rabinovitch Fox, Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021). Joan Sangster, Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism (Vancouver: University of Chicago Press, 2021).","authors":"Lyndsey Jenkins","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12668","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50125341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balancing the Books: Valuing Household Work in Weimar Germany","authors":"Carolyn Taratko","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12658","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12658","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the way that bourgeois women academics and social reformers adopted the quantified language of economics to advance their own position in the Weimar Republic. As statistics and indices proliferated as measures of national recovery, women attempted to record and describe their own economic realities within the household. They promoted bookkeeping as an indispensable tool of household rationalisation. This article argues that these bookkeeping practices enabled prominent women, including Henriette Fürth, Alice Salomon and Erna Meyer, to delineate the household – in its role as both economic unit and unit of reproductive and care work – as a site of economic importance and a field of intervention in the nascent social welfare state. Furthermore, the article shows how in the 1920s and 1930s, the market intruded into domestic life to shape notions of value and worth.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12658","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46066677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scenes of Domestic Citizenship in Negro Home Demonstration Work 1921–1938","authors":"Jessica Kenyatta Walker","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12669","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12669","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reading two United States Department of Agriculture propaganda films, <i>Helping the Negro Farmer</i> (1921) and <i>The Negro Farmer</i> (1939) along with Maryland narrative reports, this article considers the evolution of state-sanctioned discourse around domestic science, race and diet. The films rely on themes that construct the Negro home as a foil to a whitewashed progressive domestic front. Tasked with reforming this home, Negro female home demonstration agents participated in these films and worked as interlocutors, selling the narrative of kitchens as workshops of patriotism and civility. Yet, they also negotiated a form of domestic citizenship, crafting tactics of early Black food sovereignty despite being underfunded. This important period of African American foodways urges us to consider how agents were both framed as expert and expendable in the production of a national domestic standard.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12669","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44399261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘I Hope it Tastes Good’: Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Kitchens in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire","authors":"Kathleen Burke","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12660","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12660","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the intersections between gender, domestic slavery, maritime empires and food in the early modern world, focusing on the Dutch East India Company's empire in the Indian Ocean during the eighteenth century. It traces the stories of three very different women in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire and shows how food provisioning, preparation and consumption intersected with their gendered, racialised and classed roles in European colonial kitchens. In different ways, these women exerted sovereignty over food in colonial households which highlights their role as active participants in both shaping and contesting the social hierarchies of empire.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12660","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43804784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bison Herds and Indian Corn: Interspecies Matriarchs and Revitalised Foodways in the Fort Peck Reservation","authors":"Becca Dower","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12664","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12664","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For Turtle Island's Buffalo Nations – those sharing a common food system with bison at the centre – herds are a food source, as well as relatives and pillars of cultural continuity. Bison give life while exemplifying it to their tribal relatives who learned from the herds’ matriarchal organisation. Other matriarchs, including regional seeds, offer their own cultural teachings to help balance buffalo foodways. Colonial annihilation of these interspecies relatives was an attack on Indigenous People's relationships and lifeways. Re-centring these knowledge systems and ways of being is a priority in asserting tribal sovereignty and revitalising foodways. To do so, two initiatives in the Fort Peck Reservation are using contemporary tools, interlaced with cultural knowledge to increase access to Indigenous foods. First at the Fort Peck Bison Ranch where community members organise a hunt and oversee animal transfers to other communities re-establishing their own cultural herds. Further, Woicago Tipi, a Fort Peck gardening project, is working to rematriate Indigenous seed varieties so that they may continue to adapt to the regional climate and rebalance Buffalo Nation food systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12664","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45660797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The Whole Thing was Numbingly Bland and it was Deliberately So’: Food and Power in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, 1922–1996","authors":"Alice Mulhearn Williams","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12667","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12667","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For survivors of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, food is a sensory embodiment of the punishment and powerlessness they experienced while contained within the institutions. As part of the Irish Free State's architecture of containment, the relationship between the Laundries and the state is unique: the Catholic-run institutions operated outside of state bureaucracy, yet they were central to its attempts to consolidate sovereignty as a fledgling nation. For historians, the sensing body is one of the few avenues to understanding the Magdalene institutions and their place in twentieth-century Irish history. This article uses memories of food as a point of access to the subjectivities of survivors, and in doing so reveals the affective imprint of institutional power on embodied experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47714363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}