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SUMMARY:Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across 
 the early modern world - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Speaker to be confirmed
DESCRIPTION:In a global context of exchange of ideas\, people and commodit
 ies\, women played a crucial role in the multilateral ways of assimilation
  and adaptation of new food commodities and tastes across the early modern
  world. The relation between gender and food has been mainly categorized a
 s masculine/public/skilled and feminine/domestic/unskilled\, but little at
 tention is given to the wide range of food-related labour performed by wom
 en inside and outside the household\, such aspreserving\, brewing\, baking
  and cheese-making.\n\nThis interdisciplinary conference brings into dialo
 gue diverse geographies\, disciplines and approaches to reflect on the gen
 der dimension of food and cooking in the crucial period of the early globa
 lisation. We will look closely at the ‘making process’\, as a highly g
 endered and embodied experience and as a form of production and transmissi
 on of ideas\, skills and identities. Building on recent scholarship on ‘
 making and knowing’\, we consider ‘making food’ as a framework to bu
 ild cross-cultural stories of food and gender and\, thereby\, contribute t
 o the growing field of food studies.\n\nThe conference brings together int
 ernational scholars from history\, anthropology\, archaeology\, material c
 ulture and gender studies to further develop interdisciplinary approaches 
 and experimental methodologies for the study of food in the past.\n\nFull 
 programme and registration: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29831/
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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