Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Is the Potato Gendered?
Women featured in the building were wat let me that is a question. Where did women feature in the process of building up a large, healthy population? They feature through reproduction. T was discussions about how potatoes encourage lactation, allowed women to breast, freed their own babies,. which was another topic of obsession during this period. And potatoes were also said to be good food for children, that children were said to absolutely adore and match their physiology.
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