Full Description
Long-held associations between women, home, food, and cooking are beginning to unravel as, in a growing number of households, men are taking on food and cooking responsibilities. At the same time, men's public foodwork continues to gain attention in the media and popular culture. The first of its kind, Food, Masculinities and Home focuses specifically on food in relation to how homemaking practices shape masculine identities and transform meanings of 'home'. The international, multidisciplinary contributors explore questions including how food practices shape masculinity and notions of home, and vice versa; the extent to which this gender shift challenges existing gender hierarchies; and how masculinities are being reshaped by the growing presence of men in kitchens and food-focused spaces.
With ever-growing interest in both food and gender studies, this is a must-read for students and researchers in food studies, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, geography, anthropology, and related fields.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Series Preface: Why Home?
Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Victor Buchli, University College London, UK
Introduction
Shelley Koch, Emory & Henry College, USA, and Michelle Szabo, Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada
Section I: The Production of 'Masculinity' and 'Home' through Food: Empirical Studies of Masculinity and Home Cooking
Chapter 1: Cooking up Manliness: A Practice-Based Approach to Men's At-Home Cooking and Attitudes Using Time-Use Diary Data
Sarah Daniels and Ignace Glorieux, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Chapter 2: "Women Have a Gift for Cooking": Israeli Male Teachers' View of Domestic Cookery
Liora Gvion and Dorit Patkin, The Kibbutizm College of Education, Israel
Chapter 3: Transnational Domestic Masculinity: Japanese Men's Home Cooking in Australia
Iori Hamada, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chapter 4: Stumbling in the Kitchen: Exploring Masculinity, Latinicity and Belonging through Performative Cooking
Marcos D. Moldes, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Chapter 5: From "The Missus used to cook" to "Get the recipe book and get stuck into it": Reconstructing Masculinities in Older Men
Lauren Williams, Griffith University, Australia, and John Germov, University of Newcastle, Australia
Chapter 6: Men's Foodwork in Food Systems: Social Representations of Masculinities and Cooking at Home
Jeffrey Sobal, Cornell University, USA
Section II: Discourses of Men's and Boys' Home Cooking in Popular Culture and the Media
Chapter 7: Cool Kids Cook: Girls and Boys in the Foodie Kitchen
Elizabeth Fakazis, University of Wisconsin, USA
Chapter 8: "Wish I was a better boy. Nothing pertikeler for tea": Food, Boyhood, and Masculine Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Women's Coming of Age Novels
Samantha Christensen, University of Alberta, Canada
Chapter 9: "If you want to, you can do it!": Home Cooking and Masculinity Makeover in Le Chef Contre-Attaque
Jonatan Leer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter 10: Kitchen Mishaps: Performances of Masculine Domesticity in American Comedy Films
Fabio Parasecoli, The New School, USA
Chapter 11: Chefs at Home? Masculinities on Offer in Celebrity Chef Cookbooks
Alexandra Rodney and Josée Johnston, University of Toronto, Canada
Chapter 12: Don't Try This At Home: Men on TV, Women in the Kitchen
Ellen Cox, Transylvania University, USA
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