Feeding Families in Harris' Ontario: Women, the Tsubouchi Diet and the Politics of Restructuring

Authors

  • Sherilyn MacGregor York University

Abstract

This paper undertakes a feminist analysis of the politics of restructuring through a discussion of the so-called "Tsubouchi Diet", an Ontario government document that tried to show that welfare recipients can feed themselves on a mere $90.00 a month. The Tsubouchi Diet is deconstructed to reveal a number of'impositional claims' about welfare recipients in general, and implicit, gendered assumptions about women as the primary providers of food for families in particular.

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Published

1997-04-01

Issue

Feminism and the New Right in Canada

Section

Original Research

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