Food education as food literacy: Privatized and gendered food knowledge in contemporary Japan

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-482

  Kimura, Aya H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary; Female; Food education; Gender; Japan; Literacy; Neo liberalism; Nutrition education; Privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555222583     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-010-9286-6     Document Type: Article

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