Queer, Toxic Soybeans and Estrogen Panic: Gendered Food Fearmongering

This article critically analyzes cultural anxieties around the plant-based phytoestrogens in soy. Drawing from biomedical data on the physiological effects of soy ingestion, I show the ways in which gendered food fear is co-constituted by science and its diffusion within popular media, including thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rachel Vaughn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2022-09-01
Series:Media + Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.37271