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Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7396-4
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
School Lunches: Science, Motherhood, and Joshi Power
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Published:August 2016
This chapter examines the case of the safe school lunch movement (which was highly feminized) that demanded the government ensure the safety of the public school lunch program after the Fukushima accident. Food policing and the charge of fūhyōhigai made it difficult for women in the movement to speak up against the government position that no special measures were necessary in the school lunch programs. This chapter describes three strategies that the women activists in the safe school lunch movement used, emphasizing science, motherhood, and hegemonic femininity. Women activists in the movement framed their demands around good science and testing,...
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