Back to the Kitchen with the local foods movement: a Third Wave Feminist Perspective

We are now in an era of diet-caused epidemics that are starting to shorten the length and lower the quality of life. If feminist theory is to be relevant in an era of human health crisis, feminists must reconcile theory with the garden and kitchen. Current feminist theory is wrought with contradictions with regard to good food and human health. The solutions to these contradictions involve self-sufficiency, women’s history, nutrition science, and dreams for future generations of women.