Dietetics as an intersectional exercise of sensitivity
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Dietetics. Teaching. Professional Training. Intersectionality. Sensitivity.Abstract
This essay is dedicated to problematizing the teaching and professional practice in Dietetics, based on the experience built over the last decade, in the Nutrition course of the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo. The neutrality and regulatory character of this discipline are questioned to rethink it from an intersectional prism, for an in-depth analysis of the oppressions that cross food practices, and for the recognition of otherness and diversity. As a possible way for Dietetics, the intersectional exercise of sensitivity in professional practice is instigated. This admits eating (and incorporating), listens, and provides centrality to people's histories, relationships, and contexts, to support the production of food and nutritional care. Necessary discussions about intervening and influencing are listed as follows; relationships between food, gender, and sexualities; crossings between racism, health, food, and culinary practices; the impact of social class on the subjective and objective facets of food; and the confluent and contradictory narratives that cross eating in current times. The essay also features supplementary teaching materials. With these reflections on teaching and acting in nutrition, we hope to open avenues to involve Dietetics and the praxis of the nutritionist.
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