Victual vicissitudes: Consumer deskilling and the (gendered) transformation of food systems

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-162

  Jaffe, JoAnn ^a   Gertler, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer deskilling; Consumerism; Food system; Gendered relations of consumption; McDonaldization; North America; Provisioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646900709     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-005-6098-1     Document Type: Article

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