Melinda, Anne Mills. ""Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power." Anthropology Theses (2010). <:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/anthro_theses>.
The source explores the relationship between women, food, and power. The text illustrates women who engage in performances of various roles such as cooking which they are expected to accomplish as expected by the community. Melinda explains the women who did not love to cook as unapologetic in their disinterest in food preparation and kitchen chores (Melinda). She describes the people’s view of such women as lazy, although they knew how to cook, community’s perception did not change their active participation in food responsibilities. The source suggests that the role of women in cooking should be reviewed to avoid quarrels between the ladies who did not love to dish and their families. Melinda illustrates the women who love cooking as people who enjoy the performance in the kitchen and the house chores. The source continues to explain how these women accommodate their gender roles and their ability to multitask with ease and willingness. Melinda also addresses social and cultural aspects such as customs as sources of pressure on women’s decisions about their roles in society and within their particular families. The source presents the women roles in cooking and evaluates the love that women have in their cooking or kitchen activities. Melinda also explains about the women who do not love dish and hence advocate on reviewing of the gender roles in the society.
Szabo, Michelle. "“I'm a Real Catch”: The Blurring of Alternative and Hegemonic
Masculinities in Men's Talk about Home Cooking." Women's Studies International Forum 44 (2014): 228-235. Document. .
The source illustrates the domestic cooking as the subject of the initial feminist work on how gender inequality develops in the home activities. Szabo explains men and women’s perception of gender roles as symbolically replicated through kitchen roles. The author describes that men have anticipated responsibility in the domestic kitchen over the past decades. However, little attention has been dedicated to how they might be affected by changing gender roles in the kitchen (Szabo, “I'm a Real Catch”: The Blurring of Alternative and Hegemonic Masculinities in Men's Talk about Home Cooking). The source demonstrates that the traditional divisions of labor advocates for women to continue with the kitchen chores while men should cook in their careers. The author shows that the modern women are not recognizing the customs and hence advocate for gender roles review so that the kitchen duties can be shared with men. Szabo illustrates that men who engage in significant household cooking responsibilities perceived it as alternative masculinity. According to this source, men in Toronto, Canada, spend most of their time with friends thus leaving the kitchen duties to women, who oppose the gents’ perception. The author illustrates the changing roles of men and women and demonstrates the conflict that exists between them. Szabo explains that men do not participate in kitchen chores and hence burdening the women and thus he advocates for the review of these roles in families and society.
Jackson, Peter and Angela Meah. "Crowded kitchens: the ‘Democratisation’ of
Domesticity?" A Journal of Feminist Geography 20.5 (2012): 578-596. Document. 2013. .
The source focuses on the kitchen place in which gendered roles and responsibilities are contested and experienced. The author illustrates that men have begun to engage consistently in cooking and domestic tasks. The text argues that kitchen has become “crowded” spaces for women thus advocating for men to be involved in house chores such as cooking. Jackson and Angela’s interviews, ethnographic observation and evidence from focus groups in South Yorkshire in the UK, illustrates that men’s engagement into the performance of kitchen roles has created anxieties for women and also enhanced the expression of a diverse range of masculine prejudices (Jackson and Meah). The source elaborates that family meals are experienced as a site of domestic conflict and celebration of family life. The author shows that the cooking role is being embraced as a lifestyle choice by most men who engage in it when demonstrating their skills and competencies thus women spend little time in the kitchen when performing duties. The text describes kitchen as “uncanny” spaces for women as men’s presence in this realm has increased. The author explains that relationship between gendered subjectivities and home practices is varying with significant equality between men and women. The author demonstrates the equal sharing of kitchen roles by both genders which provides women with leisure from house activities hence they do not waste time in performing their home duties. The source also illustrates democratization where both men and women are engaging in kitchen activities and assist each other.
Dallinger, Judith M, Holly A Stoval and Lori Baker Sperry. "A New Discourse on the
Kitchen: Feminism and Environmental Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2015): 110-131. Document. .
The source illustrates the feminist discourse that has devaluated daily cooking and has defined it as work that reinforces women’s second-class status. Dallinger, Stovall and Sperry explain the change that has occurred in the dishes which are linked to industrialized foods and disease epidemics that has been caused by the modern Western diet (Dallinger, Stoval and Sperry). The text shows that family members are relying on the pre-assembled dishes from industries which have resulted in the decline of domestic cooking in homes. The source illustrates that the individuals can consume these foods at their comforts thus highly demanded by people. The authors continue to explain that neither environmental educators nor feminist theorists integrate cooking in the kitchen into the address. The authors suggest for the development of a feminist theory of gender inclusivity which values cooking. The source describes that feminists who prepare with local dishes as beginning to integrate with sustainable foods cooking and radicalism. The authors suggest that it is time to conceptualize a new discourse on the kitchen for a feminist-environmental theory of cooking. The authors explain about the pre-assembled foods from industries which family members prefer most because they are easily accessible and one can consume at his or her comfort. The source also explains the effect of these foods as the cause of the decline in cooking at homes.
Szabo, Michelle. "“I'm a Real Catch”: The Blurring of Alternative and Hegemonic
Masculinities in Men's Talk about Home Cooking." Women's Studies International Forum 44 (2014): 228-235. Document. .
The source illustrates men as having a passion for cooking. The author describes the feminists’ argument that men perceive cooking as leisure because of their engagements in day-to-day activities. Women, as the source illustrates, face difficulties in finding a space for leisure at homes because it is where much of their responsibilities are based thus they even fail to perform domestic chores to reading novels. The text explains the relationship between leisure and cooking among the Canadian men who have significant cooking responsibilities in their households. The author describes cooking as meaningful, freeing, relaxing, and satisfying, which characterizes leisure or laborious resulting men in engaging in kitchen chores (Szabo, Foodwork or Foodplay? Men's Domestic Cooking, Privilege and Leisure). The author opposes the notion that women’s cooking is “work”, but when performed by men it is perceived as leisure. The text explains that men engage in cooking as leisure complicated by worries about the family members’ health, approval and preferences. The source also illustrates that men participate in cooking by creating spaces and time thus resulting in gender becoming recognized. The author illustrates men cooking as an approach to spending their leisure thus helping women who are perceived as responsible for kitchen chores. Women, according to the text, do not enjoy cooking as leisure because it is their household responsibilities.
Works cited
Dallinger, Judith M, Holly A Stoval and Lori Baker Sperry. "A New Discourse on the Kitchen: Feminism and Environmental Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2015): 110-131. Document. .
Jackson, Peter and Angela Meah. "Crowded kitchens: the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity?" A Journal of Feminist Geography 20.5 (2012): 578-596. Document. 2013. .
Melinda, Anne Mills. ""Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power." Anthropology Theses (2010). <:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/anthro_theses>.
Szabo, Michelle. "“I'm a Real Catch”: The Blurring of Alternative and Hegemonic Masculinities in Men's Talk about Home Cooking." Women's Studies International Forum 44 (2014): 228-235. Document. .
Szabo, Michelle "Foodwork or Foodplay? Men's Domestic Cooking, Privilege and Leisure." Sociology (2013): 624-638. Document.
