From increased care burdens to significant employment loss, women suffered disproportionately during COVID-19. International organizations like the European Union called for gender-sensitive responses, yet feminist advocates and bureaucrats largely failed to influence governments’ COVID-19 recovery plans. Such failure appeared across even disparate cases: Germany has a conservative, male breadwinner welfare regime, and Finland has a […]

How did women negotiate the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives? “Feeding Fascism” tackles this question with a new body of evidence, ranging from industrial foodways to private letters by women who fed their families through industrial and agricultural labor. It uses food as a critical lens to examine daily negotiations of […]