Foodwork in the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The emotional experience among upper‐ and middle‐class women in Brazil
Virginia Therezinha Kestering,
Henrique Quagliato,
Marlene Tamanini
Abstract:Previous studies have shown that middle‐ and upper‐class, primarily white, women can relieve their workload and resolve family conflicts by relying on the labor of poor and/or racialized women or accessing services that facilitate their foodwork. However, the spreading of COVID‐19 and the necessity of social distancing have temporarily made the access of these facilitators difficult or impossible. Since women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic consequences on the sexual division of labor, th… Show more
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