Fisionomia di una raccolta poetica dimenticata: L’alba ai vetri di Giorgio Bassani (1963)

Article | Contributor(s): Massimo Colella

Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online

Article | Contributor(s): Erin A. McCarthy

FLEdGE (Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Essay | Contributor(s): Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.539

The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010....

Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments

2023-05-11 22:03:40 | Article | Contributor(s): Andie Silva

This is a review of Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments.

Florentine confraternities, society, and lay-religious life in the sixteenth century — A Work in Progress

Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas A. Eckstein

Fluid Layering: Reimagining Digital Literary Archives Through Dynamic, User-generated Content

2022-06-13 19:13:03 | Article | Contributor(s): Jon Saklofske, INKE Research Team | https://doi.org/10.25547/QQ2T-WG63

Digital humanities

Folger Digital Texts

2023-05-11 21:20:40 | Article | Contributor(s): Molly Barger

This is a review of Folger Digital Texts. 

Fonseca Pimentel, Eleonora. From Arcadia to Revolution: The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings. Ed. and trans. Verina R. Jones.

Article | Contributor(s): Archie R. MacGregor

Fonte de Pietade: Blood Devotion and Blood Consumption in the Laudari ‘Illuminati’ and ‘Frondini’

Article | Contributor(s): Marco Piana

The following article analyses episodes of blood devo­tion in two fourteenth-century laudari written by the members of the confraternity of the Disciplinati di Santo Stefano in Assisi, oth­erwise known as the ‘Frondini’ and ‘Illuminati’ laudari. Through the analysis of a selection of laude...

Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contributor(s): Teresa Lloro, Frecia González | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.537

A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because...

Food and Anthropology in the Early Works of Matilde Serao

Article | Contributor(s): Daria Valentini

Food has long been considered by anthropologists to be an integral part of self-representation, culture, and identity. The present study investigates the early works of Matilde Serao, focusing on food imagery and culinary customs of the city of Naples. Serao’s fiction and journalistic...

Food and Femininity by Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Review | Contributor(s): Jennifer Braun | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.184

Driven by a central question—“why do so many women care so much about food?”—Cairns and Johnston investigate the contemporary contours and connections between food and femininity, detailing the diverse ways these two things intersect and emerge in women’s lives. Their research is done in a...

Food and Society: 2nd Edition by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, and Betsy Lucal

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Review | Contributor(s): Phoebe Stephens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.215

No abstract required (book review).

Food by Jennifer Clapp

2025-03-19 22:04:02 | Review | Contributor(s): Christopher Yordy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.36

The economic shocks witnessed at the time of the global food price crisis of 2008 were a stress test for governance mechanisms in the global food economy. As the decisions at the top of the largest transnational food corporations are often shrouded in secrecy, the associated patterns of...

Food Consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore: A Gender Issue

Article | Contributor(s): Patrizia Sambuco

Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender per­spective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic represen­tations of food...

Food Counts: Food systems report cards, food sovereignty and the politics of indicators

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Article | Contributor(s): Charles Z. Levkoe, Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.277

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems recognized that "current systems will be held in place insofar as these systems continue to be measured in terms of what industrial agriculture is designed to deliver, at the expense of many other outcomes that really matter in...

Food discourses in Cape Breton: Community, economy, and ecological food practices

2025-03-19 22:03:47 | Article | Contributor(s): Erna MacLeod | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.119

This project investigates ecological food practices on Cape Breton Island as legacies of traditional lifestyles and responses to the acceleration of global capitalism. I examine the multifarious discourses that frame ecological food practices such as organic gardening and farmers’ markets in...

Food for thought: How trade agreements impact the prospects for a national food policy

2025-03-19 22:03:35 | Article | Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.282

This article examines the prospect for a national food policy through the lens of trade agreements and the concept of policy space. It traces the shrinking of domestic policy space in recent decades as a result of trade agreements. Advocates such as Food Secure Canada seek a “coherent” food...

Food insecurity in books for children: A qualitative content analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Contributor(s): Dian Day | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654

Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of...

Food insecurity on campus: A community-engaged case study with student-led families at the University of British Columbia

2025-03-19 22:13:04 | Article | Contributor(s): Claudia Paez-Varas, Gail Hammond | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.576

This paper draws from a community-engagement case study conducted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. The study examines food insecurity experienced by student families. Research data was collected through quantitative and qualitative methods applied in a residence...