SOC349H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Masculinity
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Involves: planning meals, travelling to food stores, selecting/purchasing, growing food, preparing raw ingredients, cooking, baking, cleaning up, disposing of waste, etc. Managerial aspect of foodwork: focuses on the planning meals aspect. Socio-emotional element of foodwork: focuses on the etc. (managing conversation and manners) aspect. Foodwork: physical, mental, emotional activities involved in bringing food to the table. Emotional labor: mgmt. of feelings, or producing an emotional state in another person. Can be part of wage, done in service of a corporation or organization (waitress, nurse) Can be non-monetized (e. g. mothering), done in service of family harmony/well-being. Gender: social characteristics associated with biological sex roles in a given culture. Dominant (or hegemonic) gender ideas coalesce around masculinity and femininity. Gender identity: how you relate to gender norms. Cooking skills: potential way to resist dominant whitestream culture: source of status and prestige. Health becomes a central rationale for a gendered division of labor .
