May 1: Food Work: Gender and the Labor of Cooking and Shopping (Paper #1 Due) Anne Allison, “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunchbox as State Apparatus,” in reader Brett Williams, “Why Migrant Women Feed Their Husbands Tamales,” in reader Dolores Hayden, “Two Utopian Feminists and Their Campaigns for Kitchenless Homes,” in reader May 3: Industrialized Food: Progress for the Masses or the Perils of Progress? Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, begin reading Susanne Freidberg, “The Triumph of the Egg,” in reader May 8: Industrial Food Innovations: Modern Marvels or Culinary Abominations? Jordan Sand, “A Short History of MSG: Good Science, Bad Science, Taste Cultures,” in reader Uwe Spiekermann, “Twentieth-Century Product Innovations in the German Food Industry,” in reader : check out the recipe for the Velveeta Corn Ring with Creamed Mushrooms born in Kraft Food’s kitchen laboratory and peruse some other recipes inspired by packaged foods. You can find the link on GauchoSpace, too. May10: Food Scares and Food Reforms Warren Belasco, “Food, Morality and Social Reform” Erika Rappaport, “Packaging China: Foreign Articles and Dangerous Tastes in the England” Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, excerpt, in reader May 15: Food Inc.: Screening of Documentary and Discussion of Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: finish reading and be prepared to discuss book in class May 17: Fatness, Thinness, and Wellness S. Margot Finn, “Aspirational Eating: Food and Status Anxiety in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” in reader Susan Bordo, “Not Just a White Girl’s Thing’: The Changing Face of Food and Body Image Problems,” in reader Robert Albritton, “Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry,” in reader PART III. THE POLITICS OF PLENTY AND WANT May 22: The Modern History of Hunger (Paper #2 Due) James Vernon, “The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger,” in reader Janet M. Fitchen, “Hunger Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States,” in reader
Susan Brownell, “Food, Hunger, and the State,” in reader May 24: Food and the Battlefront, World War II Lizzie Collingham, “Germany Experts Hunger to the East,” in reader May 29: Food on the Homefront, World War II Amy Bentley, “Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World War II,” in reader Sherene Seikaly, “A Nutritional Economy: The Calorie, Development, and War in Mandate Palestine,” in reader War Cookery Leaflets, Ministry of Food, UK, on GauchoSpace Wartime Ads, California Wine Industry, on GauchoSpace May 31: Countercuisines Julie Guthman, “Fast Food/Organic Food: Reflexive Tastes and the Making of ‘Yuppie Chow,’” in reader Alison Leitsch, “Slow Food and the Politics of Pork Fat: Italian Food and European Identity,” in reader Wendell Berry, on GauchoSpace Folco Portinari, “Slow Food Manifesto,” on GauchoSpace June 5: Green Revolutions and GMOs Michael Specter, “Seeds of Doubt: Vandana Shiva’s Crusade Against Genetically Modified Crops,” on GauchoSpace June 7: Contemporary Food Politics/Course Summary Kristin Wartman, “Food Fight: The Politics of the Food Industry,” in reader Sarah Lyon, “The GoodGuide to ‘Good’ Coffee,” in reader on GauchoSpace June 13: Final Exam, 12:00-3:00pm in Theater-Dance West 1701