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- Title
CARING ABOUT FOOD.
- Authors
CAIRNS, KATE; JOHNSTON, JOSÉE; BAUMANN, SHYON
- Abstract
This article draws on interviews with "foodies"--people with a passion for eating and learning about food--to explore questions of gender and foodie culture. The analysis suggests that while this culture is by no means gender-neutral, foodies are enacting gender in ways that warrant closer inspection. This article puts forward new empirical findings about gender and food and employs the concept of "doing gender" to explore how masculinities and femininities are negotiated in foodie culture. Our focus on doing gender generates two insights into gender and food work. First, we find that doing gender has different implications for men and women within foodie culture. Alongside evidence that foodies are contesting particular gendered relations within the food world, we explore how broader gender inequities persist. Second, we contend that opportunities for doing gender in foodie culture cannot be considered apart from class privilege.
- Subjects
CULTURE; MASCULINITY; GENDER; FOOD; SOCIOLOGY; FOOD habits
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 5, p591
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891243210383419