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alexauthorshay's review against another edition
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READ FOR SOCI 402
There are a few chapters in here I didn't get through because they weren't part of the course, but I read most of them. It's an Australian book, but there are stats from the US and Canada in there, and a lot of what is covered in here is applicable world wide anyways, especially the chapter on world hunger. This book is really informative, and gets you thinking about global problems in different ways. My only qualm is that the chapter on gender is, as per usual, about binary genders, i.e. sex. Transgender people have a unique relationship to food because of the intersection of their gender with other factors, and I would have liked to see that covered in a more "mainstream"/accessible title such as this.
There are a few chapters in here I didn't get through because they weren't part of the course, but I read most of them. It's an Australian book, but there are stats from the US and Canada in there, and a lot of what is covered in here is applicable world wide anyways, especially the chapter on world hunger. This book is really informative, and gets you thinking about global problems in different ways. My only qualm is that the chapter on gender is, as per usual, about binary genders, i.e. sex. Transgender people have a unique relationship to food because of the intersection of their gender with other factors, and I would have liked to see that covered in a more "mainstream"/accessible title such as this.
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