Review of: Katarina Schritt: Ernährung im Kontext von Geschlechterverhältnissen. Analyse zur Diskursivität gesunder Ernährung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2011.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/923Keywords:
Ernährung, Gesundheit, Körper, Rollen, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
Katarina Schritt starts her book with the thesis that eating and nutrition are social phenomena. It is her goal to illustrate the social character of nutrition on the basis of the discourse on ‘healthy’ eating. Using the nutrition report of the German Nutrition Society, she proves that the scientifically informed Nutrition Research offers barely any approaches to relate the empirical findings to a socially oriented explanatory framework. She opposes this with a constructivist perspective and shows that eating habits are to be understood as a product of gender role expectations. In this interpretation, gender connoted food, practices of ‘healthy’ eating, and knowledge about nutrition manifest themselves as attributes of gender roles by means of which gender identity is constructed.
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