Women and entrepreneurial Food-Work: Second acts, “New domesticity,” and the continuing significance of racialized difference

Nettles-Barcelón, Kimberly D.

doi:10.1080/07409710.2017.1391023

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“…Neoliberalism manifests in foodwork both through the guilt, anxiety, and frustration mothers feel as they attempt to manage large‐scale structural problems through their individual food burdens, as well as in the celebration of feminine food pleasures through the problematic postfeminist frame of individual choice (Cairns & Johnston, 2015; Hollows, 2003a). Intersectional scholarship simultaneously stresses that the neoliberal model of successful foodwork (and the pleasures it can facilitate) are grounded in white, upper‐middle class ideals that are especially out of reach for low‐income and BIPOC mothers (Brenton, 2017; Chen, 2016; Nettles‐ Barcelón, 2017).…”

Section: Pleasure Agency and Inequality In Foodworkmentioning

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“…First, whiteness informs the value Jelena places on wholesome, simple, clean food. This form of feeding is often attributed to intensive feeding ideals, and has been shown to reinforce the hegemony of whiteness while devaluing the feeding practices historically tied to BIPOC communities (Brenton, 2017; Nettles‐ Barcelón, 2017). Jelena's positionality as an immigrant and the socialization and experiences she encountered growing up in Latvia nonetheless also inform her orientation.…”

Section: Profiles Of Pleasure Amid Constraintmentioning

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Expanding the joys of cooking: How class shapes the emotional experience of family foodwork

Oleschuk

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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The emotional experience of foodwork is often considered along a continuum, where pleasure exists in opposition to labor, and where inequalities restrict pleasure. Analyzing qualitative interviews, recall conversations and cooking observations with 34 primary cooks in families, this article explores how diverse parents experience pleasure through family foodwork. Doing so reveals five conditions facilitating pleasure: time, choice, aesthetic freedom, connection, and appreciation. It then analyzes how access to these conditions is shaped by class inequalities, while being attentive to intersections with gender and race/ethnicity. This analysis reveals how socio‐economic inequalities fashion negative emotional relationships to foodwork by imposing disproportionate stressors on low‐income home cooks, but do not necessarily predict cooking pleasure. Through examining intersections between the sensory and material aspects of foodwork, this article furthers theoretical understanding into how foodwork reinforces gendered, racialized, and classed oppression, while simultaneously identifying how agency and empowerment operate through cooking pleasure for low‐income groups.

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Section: Pleasure Agency and Inequality In Foodworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Profiles Of Pleasure Amid Constraintmentioning

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Expanding the joys of cooking: How class shapes the emotional experience of family foodwork

Oleschuk

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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Vanns spices: Blending food, women’s friendship and business in 1980s Baltimore

Cooke

2020

Food and Foodways

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Foodwork in the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The emotional experience among upper‐ and middle‐class women in Brazil

Kestering,

Quagliato,

Tamanini

2024

Gender Work & Organization

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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, this paper examines how the pandemic affects women's emotional experience with domestic foodwork in Brazil. Drawing from the 588 upper‐ and middle‐class women's responses to an online survey, we have identified six emotional experiences influenced by the pandemic: (1) obligation, (2) overload, (3) fear, (4) safety, (5) relaxation, and (6) family time appreciation. However, the changes caused by the sanitary crises do not explain alone the new emotions experienced with domestic foodwork. Class and gender can interfere or potentialize how women feel about it during the pandemic. Obligation, overload, and fear were enhanced when the participants could not access services that were used to relieve their foodwork burden, especially when faced with an unequal sexual division of labor. In turn, safety, relaxation, and family time appreciation were facilitated by a better dynamic of domestic tasks sharing alongside the certainty to access good quality food. By analyzing these factors, this paper enhances the theoretical understanding of contextual and situational domestic foodwork emotional experience because it observes the outcomes of critical reduction of networks that used to sustain this practice involvement.

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Women and entrepreneurial Food-Work: Second acts, “New domesticity,” and the continuing significance of racialized difference

Cited by 3 publications

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Expanding the joys of cooking: How class shapes the emotional experience of family foodwork

Expanding the joys of cooking: How class shapes the emotional experience of family foodwork

Vanns spices: Blending food, women’s friendship and business in 1980s Baltimore

Foodwork in the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The emotional experience among upper‐ and middle‐class women in Brazil

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