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Food, Culture & Society
An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Volume 14, 2011 - Issue 1
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Intersectionality and Food Studies

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Psyche Williams-Forson

Psyche Williams-Forson is Associate Professor and Director Graduate Studies in the University of Maryland's Department of American Studies. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group, an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students engaged in research on objects and culture. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of cultural studies, material culture, food, and women's studies, along with the social and cultural history of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is curator of Still Cookin' by the Fireside, an online text and photo exhibition on the history of African American cookery for the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum. She was recently elected Vice-President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. 1104 Holzapfel Hall - Department of American Studies, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA ([email protected]).

Abby Wilkerson

Abby Wilkerson is a philosopher whose work focuses on embodied agency and social movements, particularly in the contexts of food, disability, health and sexuality. Her publications include The Thin Contract: Social Justice and the Political Rhetoric of Obesity (forthcoming), Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine, and articles in anthologies and journals. She co-edited “Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, with Robert McRuer. She teaches in the University Writing Program at George Washington University. University Writing Program, George Washington University, Rome Hall 553, 801 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA ([email protected]).

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