Making Pancakes on Sunday: The Male Cook in Family Tradition

Adler, Thomas

doi:10.2307/1499848

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“…Innes (2005) writes of a long-standing existence of a 'male cooking mystique' which reinforces traditional gendered roles, cooking and eating practices and the 'naturalness' of women as domestic cooks, along with the reminder that if men choose to cook, they must do so in ways which do not diminish their masculinity. While men may, in the past, have been able to restrict their engagement with cooking by establishing 'sovereignty' over a given weekend meal or type of meal event -typically the cooked weekend breakfast, the Sunday roast, or barbecue cooking (Adler 1981) -this is no longer the case in many households.…”

Section: Gender 'Skill' and Choicementioning

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Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Meah

Jackson

2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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Building on previous work concerning the gendered nature of domestic space, this paper focuses on the kitchen as a key site in which gendered roles and responsibilities are experienced and contested. As men have begun to engage more frequently in cooking and other domestic practices (albeit selectively and often on their own terms), the paper argues that kitchens have become 'crowded' spaces for women. Drawing on evidence from focus groups, interviews and ethnographic observation of kitchen practices in South Yorkshire (UK), we suggest that men's entry into the kitchen has facilitated the expression of a more diverse range of masculine subjectivities, while also creating new anxieties for women.Specifically, our evidence suggests that family meals may be experienced as a site of domestic conflict as well as a celebration of family life; that convenience and shortcuts can be embraced by women without incurring feelings of guilt and imperfection; that cooking is being embraced as a lifestyle choice by increasing numbers of men who use it as an opportunity to demonstrate competence and skill, while women are more pragmatic; ; and that kitchens may be experienced as 'uncanny' spaces by women as men increasingly assert their presence in this domain. Our analysis confirms that while the relationship between domestic practices and gendered subjectivities is changing, this does not amount to a fundamental 'democratisation' of domesticity with significantly greater equality between men and women.

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Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?

Meah

Jackson

2013

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…This masculine mode of cooking is usually framed in the language of art and aesthetics (Fine, 1995). Here cooking seems to be much more about leisure, pleasure and lifestyle (Adler, 1981;Coxon, 1983), and the more mundane practical considerations of family health and budgeting don't often get a look-in. cooking takes on more of a voluntary character for men and is not yet implicated in the wider obligations of care work (Aarseth & Olsen, 2008).…”

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The hidden work of coping: gender and the micro-politics of household consumption in times of austerity

Cappellini

Marilli

Parsons

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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This article explores the coping strategies of women in 10 middle-class Italian families facing economic crisis. We investigate food provision revealing the ceaseless extra work that goes into meal preparation. Adopting anthropological theories of thrift and sacrifice, we unpack participants' micro-coping strategies, observing their tendency to redirect resources towards their loved ones and abnegating their own needs for the greater good of the family. This sacrifice is done out of necessity, reinforcing traditional gender inequalities in the home. However, there is also evidence that women take pride in their coping, developing new competencies and maintaining control over meal provision and thus the wider patterning of family life. We explore the significance of recessionary times for the constitution of female subjectivities at home.

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“…Children in single-parent families may have worse eating habits because of the absence of adults in the home to monitor mealtimes. Children in single-father homes may fare worse than children in singlemother homes because American men's roles with respect to meal preparation tend to be limited to special-occasion cooking, such as backyard barbeques and making pancakes on Sunday [15], along with the preparation of hearty and/or unhealthful meals [16,17]. Children in stepfamilies may also display poorer eating habits.…”

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