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Long-held assumptions about women, home, food, and cooking have broken down. In an increasing number of households, women are either absent from or share domestic work more equally with men. At the same time, the visibility of men's cooking has increased through TV shows, books, blogs, and websites devoted to food and cooking. Terms like 'gastrosexual' have emerged to describe the growing male market for kitchenware and the growing prestige of public masculine foodwork.
Whilst scholars have begun to examine how men's increasing engagement with homemaking practices shapes masculine identities and transforms meanings of 'home', Food, Masculinities and Home is the first book to focus specifically on food. An international, multidisciplinary range of contributors explores questions such as:
- How do food practices shape and are shaped by masculinities and the home?
- To what extent are existing gender hierarchies being challenges? To what extent is masculine privilege being reiterated?
- To what extent are masculinities being reshaped by the increasing 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.
Michelle Szabo, University of Toronto, Canada
Shelley Koch, Emory & Henry College, USA
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Shelley Koch, Emory & Henry College, USA, and Michelle Szabo, University of Toronto, 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 of 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: Jamanese 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 Frasier 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
Afterword
Andrew Gorman-Murray, Western Sydney University, Australia
Bibliography
Index
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