SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Postfeminism, Masculinity, Cultural Capital
Document Summary
Wednesday, october 18, 2017: consumption connected to everyday life, sexism within food advertisement reinforces gender roles, reinforce women"s job to cook. Information broadly available: what is foodwork, many activities involved in producing meals, better than food. Has foodwork become easier or faster: new appliances and technologies, that it is easier and quicker, potentially true, but questionable. Increasingly deciding to eat outside of the house: shifted from almost all at home, 43% of food dollars eating outside the home. Men, masculinity and food: gives impression men are doing more food work than in the past. Daily cooking and clean-up time us (2004-2014) (min/day: men do about 20 mins of cooking per day, women doing about 49 mins. Puzzle: why are women doing so much of the family foodwork: beagan reading: talk to 3 different ethno-cultural groups, 41/46 families women are still majority of foodwork, explores how people rationalize that disproportionate share of foodwork.
