Women and nurture in industrial societies.

To address the subject of women and nutrition, it is necessary to work across disciplines. There is a long tradition of nutritionists and anthropologists working together in the United States, thanks to the pioneering work of Margaret Mead in this area. In Britain, the collaboration began even earlier with Audrey Richards (1932) in the 1930s. This collaboration continues today in the Economic and Social Research Council’s research programme on the Nation’s Diet: the Social Science of Food Choice, directed by Professor Anne Murcott. Unfortunately, in Canada it never really began. The following are some reasons why collaboration between anthropologists and nutritionists is valuable: