Third Annotation Assignment-Brooke Davis

Discipline: Women’s Studies - Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
Keywords: Women AND food
Madden, Helen, and Chamberlain Kerry. "Nutritional Health, Subjectivity and Resistance: Women’s Accounts of Dietary Practices." Sage Publications, Inc. 14.3 (2010): 292-307.
The argument of this article is stating that mothers have a great influence on what children eat, but also that children have the power and ability to persuade mothers what food to purchase. This can easily lead to an unhealthy lifestyle. There are numerous studies she shows that proves her argument. This is useful to me because it deals with exactly my topic involving women being part of the blame for obesity in the United States; by influencing and creating bad habits for their children.

Discipline: Women’s Studies - Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
Keywords: Women AND food OR obesity
Cairns, Kate, Josee Johnston, and Shyon Baumann. "Caring About Food: Doing Gender in the Foodie Kitchen." Sage Publications, Inc. 24.4 (2010): 591-615. Web. 21 Oct 2010.
The argument of this article is that gender plays a major role when working in the kitchen and who is supposed to make food. “Foodies” refer to people with a passion for eating and learning about food. Food is also related to privilege. This is useful to me because it deals with gender and food, and can tell be about women and their relation to food.

Encyclopedic Sources:
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture-Carole M. Counihan
Charles, Nickie, and Marion Kerr. Women, Food and Families. Manchester, U.K., and New York: Manchester University Press, 1988.
This section of the encyclopedia argues that women have the responsibility to cook and prepare food in a household. Despite this responsibility along with their other daily routines, they argue that men will still always have the power in a household. To them, women cook for men, making men have the power. This article is useful to me because it relates to women and food, and their responsibility of cooking which leads to my point of them causing obesity.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture-Carole M. Counihan
Counihan, Carole. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power. New York: Routledge, 1999
This section of the encyclopedia argues that the way we think about food, eat food, and make food relates to gender-power relations that are already culturally determined. She argues that women can easily gain their power through food by their control over food preparation. This is useful to me because it talks about the control women have over food and the power they get from it. With this in mind, it can be another reason as to why they are somewhat of the cause to obesity issues.