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.
"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"
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
Reviews for Food, Masculinities, and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
As a whole then, the book offers the building blocks scholars need to begin constructing new representations of gender, home and food. Editors and authors offer a review of what went before, a wealth of empirical data from many parts of the world, several original theoretical concepts that allow for the conceptualization of new food-based domestic masculinities and a range of research methods that could be emulated by other scholars in this field.” * FoodAnthropology * 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 * 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 * 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 *
