Food, Masculinities, and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Michelle Szabo (Editor), Shelley Koch (Editor), Rosie Cox (Editor), Victor Buchli (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474262330
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/18/2017
Series:	Home
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	858,344
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Michelle Szabo is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada

Shelley Koch is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory&Henry College, USA
Shelley Koch is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory&Henry College, USA.
Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching au pairs and other forms of paid domestic labour in the UK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy (2006), coeditor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (2007), co-author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (2008), Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011) and editor of Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context (2015).
Victor Buchli is Reader in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK, and Editor of Home Cultures.

Table of 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

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Presumptions about the gendered nature of domestic life permeate academic approaches to food. Challenging that with a focus on men, masculinities and the home, Szabo and Koch provide nuanced examples from a variety of disciplines. Expanding the terrain, they find that much has changed while much has stayed the same
Alice Julier, Chatham University, USA

This is a coherent and carefully edited collection of essays. It would be a very good starting point for any student or researcher wanting to study the intersections of food and masculinities. It is also an enjoyable read.
Food, Culture & Society

Wide-ranging yet coherent, this rich collection brings together new research on the relationships between masculinity, food and home that will be required reading for anyone interested in contemporary food cultures and/or domestic life.
Joanne Hollows, Independent researcher, UK

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