What's Cooking Mom? Narratives about Food and Family

Tanya M. Cassidy

• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772580419
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

What's Cooking, Mom? offers original and inventive narratives, including auto-ethno- graphic discussions of representations, discourses and practices about and by mothers regarding food and families. These narratives discuss the multiple strategies through which mothers manage feeding themselves and others, and how these are shaped by international and regional food politics, by global and local food cultures and by their own ethical values and preference, as well as by those of the ones they feed.

Table of contents

• What’s Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family
• Copyright Notice
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction TANYA M. CASSIDY AND FLORENCE PASCHE GUIGNARD
• I. Positionality, Ethics, and Reflexivity
• 1. Talking Back (to Myself)CHRISTIN L. SEHER
• 2. It’s a Gluten World Out There: A Celiac Mother’s Socialization Story JOYCE L. MANDELL
• 3. Revisiting and Reconstructing Maternal Sustenance: An Autoethnographic Account of Academic Motherhood SARAH N. GATSON
• 4.Meeting Myself for Dinner: Negotiating the Multiplicity of Positionality While Feeding the Family LORIN BASDEN ARNOLD
• 5.Production, Process, and Parenting: Meanings of Human Milk Donation TANYA M. CASSIDY AND CONRAD BRUNSTRÖM
• II. Memories, Responsibility, and Authority
• 6. Feeding Hannah ROBIN SILBERGLEID
• 7.Farm Culture, the Politics of Food, and Maternal Guilt B. LEE MURRAY
• 8.When Feeding Your Family Is a Full-time Job KARI O’DRISCOLL
• 9.My Mother Did Not Cook DOMINIQUE O’NEILL
• 10.Fortress of Confection: Lessons from My Yankee Grandmother ERICA CAVANAGH
• 11.Dreams of Exclusive Breastfeeding: Mothering Without Enough Milk GRACE M. CHO
• III. Negotiating Intercultural Maternal Experiences
• 12.Lebkuchen Lesson: Teaching Our Children Through Traditional Foods EMILY WEISKOPF-BALL
• 13.Scary Candy, Goldfish Crackers, and Kale Chips: Feeding and Parenting Our New Canadian Daughter in Toronto FLORENCE PASCHE GUIGNARD AND THOMAS GUIGNARD
• 14.Wa and Wa-shoku: Mothering and Food as an American in Japan WENDY JONES NAKANISHI
• 15.The Rebellious Bento Box: Slapdash Western Mothering in Perfectionist Japan MEREDITH STEPHENS
• 16.An Ethnographic Analysis of U.S. Culture and Carribean Food Practices ROSA E. SOTO AND SHARMILA PIXY FERRIS
• 17.The Cooking Lesson: Identity and Spirituality in the Lives of Hindu Refugees in America DOROTHY ABRAM
• Contributor Biographies