Food, Culture, and Gender 1

Counihan, Carole

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“…However, these reforms and programmatic innovation may be undermined by institutional systems, like the food systems described here, that foster a traumatic environment of punishment and degradation: “There is much that can be done to develop more appropriate policies for women across a broader range of areas … corrections professionals need concrete models as a guide in developing gender responsive policy” (King and Foley, 2014: 5). Indeed, the construction of gender-responsive correctional facilities requires a wider gaze that includes food-related behaviors and other quotidian tasks: It is through these micro-activities that people, on the inside and the outside, make meaning of their lives (Counihan, 1999).…”

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Hungry on the inside: Prison food as concrete and symbolic punishment in a women’s prison

Smoyer

Lopes

2016

Punishment & Society

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Women’s perceptions of the prison experience and the punishing dimensions of their confinement are under-examined. To expand knowledge in this area, Sexton’s theory of penal consciousness is used to analyze formerly incarcerated women’s narratives about prison food. This analysis builds understanding about the lived experience of incarceration by explicating one dimension of prisoners’ understandings and perceptions of punishment. Women’s narratives describe both concrete and symbolic punishments associated with food. Participants spoke about poorly designed, sloppy food systems that left them feeling uncared for, ignored, frustrated, and humiliated. Women articulate experiences of hunger that reflect both a deprivation of adequate food and a rationing of humane attentions. These punishing perceptions may inhibit the efforts of social service and health providers to engage incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in care. In contrast, exceptional participant narratives about positive, non-punishing food experiences suggest that ameliorated food systems could improve the lived experience of incarceration and promote the engagement in services that is needed to improve the outcomes of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.

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Hungry on the inside: Prison food as concrete and symbolic punishment in a women’s prison

Smoyer

Lopes

2016

Punishment & Society

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“…Food, as a cultural and material practice, is closely related to the maintenance, expression and reworking of identity of diasporic members (Avieli, 2005; Plaza, 2014). The meanings of food come from its ability not only to fulfill basic biological needs but also to evoke vital physiological associations, namely our senses, emotions and memories (Counihan, 1999). Through the preparation, eating and sharing of food and the creation of different cultural communities in a host society, migrant groups’ memories of home can be triggered, revealing the important role of food in diasporic experiences.…”

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Culinary diaspora space: Food culture and the West African diaspora in Hong Kong

Shum

2020

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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This article examines how food practices contribute to the lived experience of the West African diaspora in Hong Kong. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observations of Africans in different African restaurants, grocery stalls and cultural events, this article proposes the concept of a “culinary diaspora space” to examine how they navigate spaces of solidarity and struggle during their integration process through African food-related practices. It highlights the point at which boundaries of inclusion and exclusion are contested by revealing the practical and symbolic roles played by migrants’ traditional food culture throughout the integration process. This research argues that African food outlets are a space of social frictions but also of possible cultural encounters between the Africans and Hong Kong Chinese. By focusing on food-related practices, this research demonstrates how the West African diaspora is felt, embodied and perceived by the host society.

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“…Slenderness is associated with a whole range of positive traits: advertising, fashion and mainstream media project the belief that thinness connotes control, power, wealth, competence, and success (Counihan, 1999: 9, O’Neil and Silver 2017: 117). Slender persons, then, are perceived to ‘house a self that errs on the side of moral superiority’ (Paxson, 2005: 20).…”

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Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice

Holla

2018

Ethnography

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This paper investigates the relation between food, the body and morality in fashion modelling. More than has been recognized so far, eating is a continuous form of body work that is decidedly essential to aesthetic labour. Against the backdrop of slender aesthetics, models are purposefully socialized into remaining or becoming slender, through food beliefs inducing them to eat in specific ways. Food is classified into good and bad categories, and believed to affect male and female bodies differently. But other than to aesthetics or gender, considering ‘what (not) to eat’ links to morality, enabling models to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and others. These show two main moral imperatives: models should eat controlled and effortlessly. Solving this moral paradox, models normalize and conceal controlled eating. Ultimately, the fashion modelling food system preoccupies models with self-surveillance and reinforces power inequalities between models and other professionals.

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Food, Culture, and Gender 1

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Hungry on the inside: Prison food as concrete and symbolic punishment in a women’s prison

Hungry on the inside: Prison food as concrete and symbolic punishment in a women’s prison

Culinary diaspora space: Food culture and the West African diaspora in Hong Kong

Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice

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