Food, Masculinities, and Home

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Michelle Szabo, Shelley Koch, Rosie Cox, Victor Buchli

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781350091702
• eBook ISBN: 9781474262347
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Series preface: Why home?
• Introduction
• Section One The production of “masculinity” and “home” through food: Empirical studies of masculinity and home cooking
• Section Two Discourses of men’s and boys’ home cooking in popular culture and the media
• Index