A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization

By Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY in association with Gender Arc at NUI Galway

Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she also runs the Food Studies concentration. This talk focuses on her book, A Bun in the Oven (2016), the first comparison of the birth and food social movements in the USA. In both movements, issues of the natural, the authentic, and the importance of ‘meaningful’ and ‘personal’ experiences get balanced against discussions of what is sensible, convenient and safe. And both movements operate in a context of commercial and corporate interests,which places profit and efficiency above individual experiences and outcomes. A Bun in the Oven brings new insight into the relationship between our most intimate, personal experiences,the industries that control them, and the social movements that resist the industrialization of life and seek to birth change.

With thanks to the Moore Institute and the Fulbright intercountry speaker scheme
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