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Teachers' Work, Food Policies, and Gender in A rgentina
Author(s) -
Robert Sarah A.,
McEntarfer Heather Killelea
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12067
Subject(s) - ethnography , metropolitan area , work (physics) , sociology , food service , gender studies , public policy , public relations , economic growth , political science , geography , marketing , economics , business , mechanical engineering , archaeology , anthropology , engineering
Few studies explore teachers' involvement in school feeding, questioning gendered implications within a feminine and feminized profession. Ethnographic data from one public high school in M etropolitan B uenos A ires suggest that teachers' efforts to address student hunger added new work roles: food advocates/activists, food managers, and service providers/caregivers. The data illustrate the collision of gendered roles (feeding and teaching) as well as how the gendered nature of policy shapes teachers' work.