Hogar es donde está la comida: : barreras al vegetarianismo y veganismo en el ámbito doméstico

Kathryn Asher; Elizabeth Cherry; Carmen María Carpena Ortega

Authors

Kathryn Asher
Elizabeth Cherry
Carmen María Carpena Ortega

Keywords:

vegetarian, vegan, barriers, domestic life, sociology of food, animal advocacy

Abstract

Which factors in the domestic sphere serve as barriers to the successful promotion and maintenance of vegetarian and vegan diets? In this paper, we seek to explore the domestic roadblocks to vegetarian and vegan diet conversion in order to complement existing sociological research on vegetarianism, veganism, and animal advocacy. To accomplish this, we engaged in a review of sociological literature on food and domestic life, including literature from sociology of the family, sociology of gender, the sociology of food, and other areas. The barriers we found include family reactions to dietary change, mothers’ roles in providing food for young children, the subordination of women’s food preferences, women’s food provisioning as a form of power, the dynamics of food choice between spouses and significant others, the role of meat in the domestic hierarchy of meals, and race and social class.

Author Biographies

Kathryn Asher

Doctoranda en el Departamento de Sociología en la Universidad de New Brunswick. Estudia la sociología de la alimentación, movimientos sociales y la efectividad de la defensa al veganismo y al vegetarianismo. Se centra en modelar una ruta libre hacia una sociedad que no dependa del consumo de carne. Kathryn también es directora de investigación de Faunalytics.
Elizabeth Cherry

Profesora adjunta de sociología en la Manhattanville College, donde imparte cursos de sociología medioambiental, sociología de la alimentación, animales y sociedad y movimientos sociales medioambientales. Su investigación se centra en el veganismo y en el activismo en favor de los derechos de los animales en Francia y en Estados Unidos.
Carmen María Carpena Ortega

Estudió el Grado en Traducción y Mediación Interlingüística en la Universitat de València y actualmente se especializa en el Máster en Traducción Audiovisual del Instituto Superior de Estudios Lingüísticos y Traducción. Mientras tanto, es traductora de páginas web y se embarca en proyectos de traducción que le parecen interesantes por la labor social que llevan a cabo, como es el caso de la Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales.

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