Narratives of progress: cooking and gender equality among Swedish men.
Feminist food studies have repeatedly identified a dichotomy of ‘masculine’ self-oriented cooking as leisure and ‘feminine’ other and care-oriented foodwork (meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning up after meals). However, recent research suggests that there is a great deal of variety...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 151 - 164 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2017
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