WS212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mary Douglas, Girls Aloud, Queer Theory
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Food sharing is one of the major tools we have for building, expressing and solidifying intamacy. Mary douglas states that part of deciphering a meal is understanding its rituals, categories and exclusions/inclusions. > each meal is encoded w levels of intamacy/membership which is part of the symbolic and syntax of eating. Social universe" as observed inc those with whom she only has drink and those who she shares both drinks and a meal. A large proportion of dating rituals surround food sharing especially in the circumstances as a gendered ritual. Men would be more likely to prefer to pay than would women. Attractiveness indv of both sexes would be less willing to pay. Preferences to enter an exchange would be in uenced by the attractiveness of prospective partners such that men would prefer to pay for attractive women and women would prefer to be paid for by attractive men.
