As part of the ongoing series exploring gender and food, the Williams College Sustainable Food and Agriculture Program & The Williams College Women’s and Gender Studies Program present: Gender and Food Activism:Dr. Carole Counihan.
Monday, March 7th, 7 pm
Paresky Auditorium, 39 Chapin Hall Drive
Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267
Open and free to the public. Discussion to follow.
Carole Counihan, Professor of Anthropology at Millersville University, will pose whether and how gender plays a role in food activism in general, and in Slow Food Italy in particular.
Dr. Counihan is an expert in the fields of food and gender studies; Counihan is author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence and The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. She is editor of Food in the USA: A Reader and, with Penny Van Esterik, of Food and Culture: A Reader. She is editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Food and Foodways.