Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FOOD AND GENDER IN MODERN U.S. HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the history of food, cooking, feeding, and eating in relation to the history of gender relations in the US from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Topics include domestic and paid labor, food industry marketing, cooking technologies, and how particular foods and diets have been gendered, racialized, classed, and designated as “queer.”