Women, Food, Power … and Books!

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

From “The Flintstones” to Focus on the Family, the stereotype has long been that men hunt and provide, while women just stir the pot. Thankfully, today many women—and men—reject both that biological essentialism and the resulting division of labor. But what can science tell us about the role our earliest female ancestors played in providing food for themselves and their communities? Meanwhile, given the fact that women have been confined to the kitchen for much of recent Western history, how have they used food as a tool of power and protest, escape, and resistance? Just in time for the holiday season, this episode we dive into two books that take on the science and history of women’s relationship with food. First, science journalist Angela Saini helps us upend conventional wisdom on “women’s work” and biological differences between the sexes; then food historian Laura Shapiro reveals an entirely new side to six well-known women through their culinary biographies. Join us this episode as we hunt, gather, and cook with women throughout history, from feral pigs to Shrimp Wiggle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Lisa Ling, a journalist and host.
0:07.2	And I'm Hoon Lee, but you may know me as Chao on the Max original series War Year, based
0:11.7	on the writings of Bruce Lee.
0:13.4	After every new episode, join us here Hoon and I, and a series of special guests are
0:18.6	going to discuss how the show is made.
0:21.0	So, stream War Year season 3, starting June 29 only on Max, and join us here or wherever
0:26.6	you listen to podcast.
0:31.0	There are communities in the world in which women hunt the way that men hunt.
0:36.8	For example, the Mato tribes, Aboriginal tribes in Australia, women hunt for sport, they
0:43.1	hunt fell clats for sport, the Nunnerdouken Agta in the Philippines, which sadly that community
0:49.2	has pretty much disappeared now.
0:51.3	But in that community, women hunted routinely just the way that men did, the same things
0:56.1	that men did.
0:57.5	So it's not the case that hunting was always the male preserve.
1:01.9	I am so excited that we're having Angela Saini on the show, that's Angela's voice you
1:06.7	just heard, telling us that women hunt.
1:09.5	Not only is she my friend, but she wrote an absolutely fantastic new book, which we are
1:13.8	going to talk to her about.
1:15.7	And then we're going to talk to the author of another great new book, and both books are
1:20.0	about women and food and power.
1:23.1	And either or both of these books would make fabulous holiday gifts.
1:26.8	This is our version of a holiday recommendation episode by these books, after you listen to
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