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Gender, Fast Food, and Nutritional Perspectives in Contemporary Philippines

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Title Gender, Fast Food, and Nutritional Perspectives in Contemporary Philippines
 
Creator Matejowsky, Ty; University of Central Florida
 
Subject Social Science
fast food; globalization; obesity
 
Description Local health and foodways are exposed to new and problematic elements as corporate fast food becomes increasingly ubiquitous. A 2005 consumer survey completed by 160 college-age women and men in provinces in the Philippines elucidates how fast food is conceptualized and its effects mediated locally. Paying attention to intersections of gender and fast food amid ongoing rivalries between global (McDonald’s) and local (Jollibee) restaurant chains, this paper addresses the (dis)similarities underlying: (1) how fast food is regarded in terms of diet, nutrition, and hunger satisfaction; and (2) how prevailing consumption patterns manifest themselves within the gendered framework of local populations.Keywords: fast food; globalization; obesity DOI: 10.3860/apssr.v10i1.1578Asia-Pacific Social Science Review 10:1 (2010), pp. 1-20
 
Publisher De La Salle University
 
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Date 2010-07-01
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.philjol.info/philjol/index.php/APSSR/article/view/1578
10.3860/apssr.v10i1.1578
 
Source Asia-Pacific Social Science Review; Vol 10, No 1 (2010); 1-20
 
Language en
 
Coverage Philippines