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CWS MA Graduate publishes research on food, gender and the war in Ukraine

Posted on 13 January 2025

Food–gender relationship on the backdrop of war: the gendered practices of cooking, sharing and belonging through food.

 

''I could not think about anything. The first two weeks the program “survival” was on. There were twelve people in our parents’ house. And I was responsible for getting food on the table.''

Yuliia Mieriemova, graduate of the MA Women's and Gender Studies (GEMMA) programme, has published an article on food, gender and war in the journal Food, Culture and Society. Her article draws on interview research with women in Ukraine and demonstrates 'how food becomes a central arena for performing belonging, negotiating individual and collective memory of the Soviet past and Holodomor, and envisioning the future after the war. It takes a closer look at the contextual conditions of the ways in which food is gendered during war and investigates what individual gendered food experiences represent for the military and food feminist studies scholarship beyond its current focus'.

Yuliia graduated from the Centre for Women's Studies in  2020 and now works at the Gender Centre at the University of Basel. Her research is part of a wider project on servicewomen in Ukraine.