Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima

Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese government’s assurances that the country’s food suppl…

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