Metrosexuality can Stuff it: Beef Consumption as (Heteromasculine) Fortification

Buerkle, C. Wesley

doi:10.1080/10462930802514370

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“…Increased meat consumption has also been viewed as a sign of renewed traditional masculinity or a rejection of modern, effeminized, or "metrosexual" masculinity. In a U.S. cultural analysis, eating beef was reaffirmed as a way of reclaiming or strengthening traditional masculinity in the face of alternative masculinities that indicate femininity and signal weakness (Buerkle, 2009). …”

Section: Men Masculinities and Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Men, Food, and Prostate Cancer: Gender Influences on Men’s Diets

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Although healthy eating might enhance long-term survival, few men with prostate cancer make diet changes to advance their well-being. Men's typically poor diets and uninterest in self-health may impede nutrition interventions and diet change. Food choice behavior is complex involving many determinants, including gender, which can shape men's health practices, diets, and prostate cancer experiences. Developing men-centered prostate cancer nutrition interventions to engage men (and where appropriate their partners) in promoting healthy diets can afford health benefits. This article presents an overview and synthesis of current knowledge about men's food practices and provides an analysis of diet and diet change behaviors for men with prostate cancer. Masculinity and gender relations theory are discussed in the context of men's food practices, and suggestions for future applications to nutrition and prostate cancer research and diet interventions are made.

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Section: Men Masculinities and Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Men, Food, and Prostate Cancer: Gender Influences on Men’s Diets

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“…Unlike the era of instructional televised cookery ushered in by The French Chef in 1962, early 21st-century food programming is a celebrity-driven entertainment forum that increasingly relies on competition to entice viewers. Today, television has transformed interest in food into a cultural phenomenon (Collins, 2009), cooking shows proliferate (Watson & Caldwell, 2005),and entire food, yet there remains a comparative dearth of research on men, masculinity, and cooking (Buerkle, 2009;Julier & Lindenfeld, 2005). How food serves as a key site for the construction of femininity is well documented; less is known, however, about what happens when men occupy the femininely coded domain of cooking in nonprofessional settings.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the gendered construction of food, women are associated with the preparation of vegetables, whereas men are typically associated with the cooking of meat, especially outdoors, on a grill, over an open flame (Adams, 1990;Buerkle, 2009;Heinz & Lee, 1998;Sobal, 2005). Outdoor grilling is generally seen as a masculine activity, one that is reinforced in other cultural realms, such as cookbook literature (Miller, 2010;Swenson, 2009).…”

Section: Meatmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tailgate Warriors

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Liberti

2013

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This study provides a textual analysis of the 2009/2010 Food Network series, Tailgate Warriors (TW). The show features teams representing National Football League (NFL) cities in competition to determine who has the best tailgate fare. TW is part of an evolution in Food Network programming from an instructional model with a largely female audience to a competition-based entertainment spectacle geared increasingly toward men. Hegemonic masculinity is reinforced across the four themes identified in our analysis of the mediated intersection of food and sport. Competitive spectacle, the preoccupation with meat, the complexity of menus and food preparation, and discourses around place identity all work to distance cookery from the femininely coded domestic space of the kitchen.

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“…Men are praised for a voracious appetite and devouring nature (Buerkle 2009). It is an occasion for laughter when a man points out the bloodthirsty nature of vengeful female mosquitoes or praying mantises.…”

Section: The Food Chain and Edible Womenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eat or Be Eaten: A Feminist Phenomenology of Women as Food

Douglas¹

2013

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Young, and Sandra Bartky-among numerous others-have argued that our lived embodiment is philosophically important since it is subject to discipline, power, and contingencies. Our bodies are experienced through and conditioned by our social status, gender, race, and ability.Much of this work draws upon phenomenology, arguing that our bodies are not separated from our subjectivities but are one and the same. However, little feminist philosophical analysis has been done on the role of our bodies as food. I argue that paying philosophical attention only to how the body is shaped, viewed, and touched neglects a dimension of our materiality: what Val Plumwood calls "foodiness" and what I will primarily refer to as edibility. In this paper, I argue that seeing ourselves as edible, beginning with women as edible, can result in both a new ontoecological ethics and to a new understanding of the life/death/life cycle. I will pursue this argument first by contesting the traditional image of the food chain and of humans eating, through the works of Eva-Maria Simms and Val Plumwood. Both of these authors detail instances of philosophical importance that demonstrate how very edible the human subject is.Following this examination, I will formulate an extension of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's ontology, where just as visibility is essentially reversible, edibility is also a condition of our existence.

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Metrosexuality can Stuff it: Beef Consumption as (Heteromasculine) Fortification

Cited by 54 publications

References 28 publications

Men, Food, and Prostate Cancer: Gender Influences on Men’s Diets

Men, Food, and Prostate Cancer: Gender Influences on Men’s Diets

Tailgate Warriors

Eat or Be Eaten: A Feminist Phenomenology of Women as Food

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