SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Acculturation, Private Sphere, Unintended Consequences
6 Dec 2014
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Food nourishes the physical food is never just about nutrition. Food carries multiple levels of educational, social, cultural, political meaning o. Food marks the body with ones identity, gendered, classes, age, racialized, ethnic, and other ways. Symbolic meaning, the work of feeding oneself and others can never escape physical or material realities o. Feminist scholars critiqued the dominant cultural obsession with thinness and the ways that this obsession keeps woman perpetually dissatisfied with their bodies. Benefits capitalism by encouraging woman to buy products and services to achieve the allusive perfect body". Foodwork in the domestic sphere another axis of oppression in the gendered division of labour: woman"s work in social reproduction largely invisible, unpaid, and undervalued. Analysis of food practices gender in isolation from other social positions: neglecting how women"s unpaid food work is part of the complex going of intersecting identities of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
