<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/westmont-news/talk-bites-eating-habits-sexes.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>01/04/2007</pubDate><title>Talk Bites into Eating Habits of the Sexes</title><excerpt>An assistant professor of philosophy from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., will come to Westmont to talk about how cultural myths of female and male eating relate in important ways to how men and women generally react to desire. Christina Van Dyke’s lecture “‘I’ll Have a Salad and Diet Coke’: Eating as a Gendered Act,” will be at Kerrwood Hall in Hieronymus Lounge, Friday, Jan. 12, at 3:30 p.m. The free talk is open to the public.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            <img src="/_migrated-binaries/sites/default/files/blogs-legacy/2007/01/Christina-Van-Dyke2.jpg" alt="Christina Van Dyke"/>
        </image><caption/><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...</description></item>