Food, Masculinities, and Home : Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Series preface: Why home? -- Introduction -- Why this book? -- Food, gender, and home in the literature -- Theoretical considerations -- Methodology -- Overview of chapters -- Summary: The intersections of food, masculinities, and home -- Limitations and future research directions -- Notes -- References -- Section One The production of "masculinity" and "home" through food: Empirical studies of masculinity and home cooking -- Chapter 1 Cooking up manliness: A practice-based approach to men's at-home cooking and attitudes using time-use diary data -- Introduction -- Material and methods -- Toward a conceptualization of cooking -- Methods -- Results -- Cooking from a life-course perspective -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2 "Women have a gift for cooking": Israeli male teachers' view of domestic cookery -- Introduction -- Masculinity in Israel -- Gender and foodwork in the literature -- Methodology -- Findings -- Home cooking as an option -- Home cooking as "meant for men" -- Home cooking as a traditionally feminine duty and skill -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Transnational domestic masculinity: Japanese men's home cooking in Australia -- Introduction -- Method -- Contextualizing "domestic masculinities"/"masculine domesticities" in a transnational social space -- Work arrangements -- Social expectations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Stumbling in the kitchen: Exploring masculinity, Latinicity, and belonging through performative cooking -- Vignette 1: Preparación | Preparation -- Vignette 2: Making meringue -- Vignette 3: Bizcochuelo -- Vignette 4: Dulce de leche -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Chapter 5 From "The missus used to cook" to "Get the recipe book and get stuck into it": Reconstructing masculinities in older men -- Introduction -- Gender order and the social construction of masculinity -- Influence of the Cooking for 1 or 2 program: An empirical study -- Study findings: Before participating in Cooking for 1 or 2 -- Learning to cook due to necessity: Maintaining independence or helping out "the wife" -- Findings from interviews after the program: Broadened masculinities -- The plurality of masculine scripts around food preparation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6 Men's foodwork in food systems: Social representations of masculinities and cooking at home -- Introduction -- Foodwork in food systems -- Households, homes, and gendered foodwork -- Social representations of men and foodwork at home -- Ideological social representations of men cooking at home -- Social representations theory and Connell's conceptualization of multiple masculinities -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section Two Discourses of men's and boys' home cooking in popular culture and the media -- Chapter 7 Cool kids cook: Girls and boys in the foodie kitchen -- Introduction -- Foodie culture and evolving definitions of home cooking -- Foodie culture: Attracting children, expanding the market -- Constructing culinary selves -- Children's culinary culture -- First steps: Pretend kitchens, gadgets, and culinary play -- From pretend kitchens to the real thing: Children's culinary shows, cookbooks, and magazines -- Kid celebrity chefs: Making the most of foodie culture -- Growing up: Future implications of a foodie culture -- References -- Chapter 8 "Wish I was a better boy. Nothing pertikeler for tea": Food, boyhood, and masculine appetite in nineteenth-century women's coming-of-age novels.

"Smears of molasses on the sleeve of his jacket": Boys and the ideal masculine appetite -- "I wish I loved my lessons as much as I do my dinner": Alcott's fat boys and eating shame -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9 "If you want to, you can do it!": Home cooking and masculinity makeover in Le Chef Contre-Attaque -- Gender and culinary makeovers in food television -- Cyril Lignac and Le Chef Contre-Attaque -- Crisis: "I'm sick of it!" -- Carnival: "We reverse the roles!" -- Transformation: "If you want to, you can do it" -- Home cooking and masculinity hierarchies -- References -- Chapter 10 Kitchen mishaps: Performances of masculine domesticity in American comedy films -- Food, men, and comedy -- Finding men's identity in drag -- Muscles, food, and childcare -- Daddy cares, and supports his family too -- What's so funny? -- References -- Chapter 11 Chefs at home? Masculinities on offer in celebrity chef cookbooks -- Introduction -- Theorizing celebrity, food, and masculinity -- Analyzing cookbooks -- Men celebrity chefs' personas: Domestic connections -- Conclusion: Establishing space for domestic masculinities? -- Notes -- References -- Cookbook references -- Chapter 12 "Don't try this at home": Men on TV, women in the kitchen -- Introduction -- Cooking up ideology -- Men on TV, women in the kitchen -- Don't try this at home -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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