Fathers, Food and Family Life

Metcalfe, Alan; Dryden, Caroline; Johnson, Maxine; Owen, Jenny; Shipton, Geraldine

doi:10.1057/9780230244795_6

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“…In contrast, food in Jade’s home seemed to be a vehicle for, and indeed a symbol of (Geertz, 1972), freedom from gendered social expectations. It is, however, difficult for women to ‘opt out’ completely (Metcalfe et al, 2009) and Jade’s mother ultimately capitulated to her children’s food desires. In this case, as in the rest of this group, children had perhaps replaced the father at the head of the metaphorical table.…”

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Children’s food, power and control: Negotiations in families with younger children in England

O’Connell

Brannen

2013

Childhood

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This article focuses on children’s food in families and the power relations in which it is embedded. Drawing on paired interviews with parents and younger children in a qualitative sample (N = 47), and taking a case approach, the article analyses ways in which power and control are negotiated in parent–child relationships in relation to food. Types and extent of control over children’s eating are described, and the importance of resources and parents’ conceptions of ‘the child’ considered. In distinction to polarized debates about who does, or should, control children’s food in families, the article notes considerable variation between families.

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Children’s food, power and control: Negotiations in families with younger children in England

O’Connell

Brannen

2013

Childhood

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“…For example, some men see domestic cooking as a source of family sociality (Aarseth and Olsen, 2008). Similarly, studies from different parts of the Western world have indicated that food responsibilities have for some become incorporated into fathering (Metcalfe et al ., 2009; Owen et al ., 2010; Namie and Timmons, 2014). In addition, some men who enter into (heterosexual) partnerships strive to improve their cooking for the sake of their partners (Bove and Sobal, 2006; Kemmer et al ., 1998; Sellaeg and Chapman, 2008).…”

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Masculinity and the sociality of cooking in men’s everyday lives

Neuman

Gottzén

Fjellström

2017

The Sociological Review

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This article explores how 31 Swedish men (22–88 years old) talk about the sociality of domestic cooking in everyday life. We demonstrate how domestic cooking – for oneself, for others and with others – is part of the understanding of contemporary Swedish men and how the expressed sociality of cooking is intertwined with accomplishments of masculinity. The sociality of cooking is not only about homosocial leisure but also a way for men to maintain heterosocial relationships and assume domestic responsibility. We discuss a potential cultural transition in men’s domestic-meal sociality and suggest the need for studies of gendered divisions of domestic work and the sociology of food to analyse how cooking shares similar properties to those of commensality, and the implications of this regarding gender relations.

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“…Whether or not this suggestion is transferable to other contexts is yet to be examined, but the literature does, at least, suggest that in several parts of the Global North, Scandinavia especially, domestic food responsibilities are no longer taken for granted as "women's work," nor is the feeding of the family confined only to mothers. Over the past decade, qualitative studies from North America (Sellaeg and Chapman 2008;Szabo 2013Szabo , 2014, the UK (Meah 2017;Metcalfe et al 2009;Owen et al 2010), France (Kaufmann [2005] 2010), and Scandinavia (Aarseth 2009;Aarseth and Olsen 2008;Fjellström 2017a, 2017b) have supported this trend. However, in contrast to the rich literature on gendered foodwork focused on women, the literature on men largely does not explore social differentiations among groups of men and remains problematically skewed toward men of higher socioeconomic status.…”

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Feeding the extended family: gender, generation, and socioeconomic disadvantage in food provision to children

Neuman

Eli

Nowicka

2018

Food, Culture & Society

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This paper examines how US parents and grandparents describe their provision of food to preschool-age children. Drawing on forty-nine interviews with sixteen families, most of which were socioeconomically disadvantaged, it is argued that gender and generation intersect in everyday efforts to care for children's eating. The analysis explores gendered divisions of foodwork, highlights the struggles of single mothers, and examines fathers' redefinitions of the paternal role to include feeding and caring for children. At the core of the analysis, however, is the participants' emphasis on grandmothers as sources of knowledge and support, with both fathers and mothers citing grandmothers and other women of earlier generations as culinary influences and as role models for good parenting. The article thus discusses "feeding the extended family," and concludes with a discussion about moving beyond the couple-focused paradigm of parenting in research on food and the gendered division of foodwork.

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Fathers, Food and Family Life

Cited by 14 publications

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Children’s food, power and control: Negotiations in families with younger children in England

Children’s food, power and control: Negotiations in families with younger children in England

Masculinity and the sociality of cooking in men’s everyday lives

Feeding the extended family: gender, generation, and socioeconomic disadvantage in food provision to children

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