ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the ways subject gender has made its way into agri-food scholarship, including interesting cross-pollinations with the subfield of masculinity studies. This is followed by the more recent turn in the literature whereby race and ethnicity are theorized and studied in an agri-food context. For instance, even when Community Supported Agriculture schemes (CSAs) and farmers markets are organized to help low income minority groups, they often end up serving groups who already have access to fresh, locally/regionally produced foods namely, affluent, educated, European American consumers. A nutritionist working for UNICEF in West Africa gives a similarly bleak assessment of the foodscape faced by women in rural Ethiopia: In a context of food insecurity, the social status of women raises many problems. Women workers are also more dependent on agriculture for survival than male workers. The chapter concludes by discussing the following interrelated subjects that have long interested agri-food scholars: inequality, social justice, and po.
