The kitchen is arguably the last battle – ground for reproduction of gender relations in the western world. Discuss.
INTRODUCTION
The gender division in the food preparation has an atavistic stigma. Men hunted and acquired meat; women were preparing meat at home and served it to the family. All primitive communities are characterised by the subordinate role of woman. Food in Douglas’ classification theory has been linked with rituals which adherence prevents the chaos and the social destruction. Deep divide between gender roles in the patriarchal model of society, became a precondition of social order. Douglas (1971)
This rule still applies to the present society and “the kitchen” becomes probably the last battlefield of gender in the western world. In this essay I will present arguments that patriarchal reproduction of gender affiliation still exists in the contemporary society and is strongly correlated with the food and the kitchen zone.
I will also present arguments that some significant changes have been recorded in the society which violate the old social order and have changed the understanding of male and female roles in the present society. Patriarchate on Sardinia
Douglas argued that the meal and rituals created around it reinforced the gender division and hierarchisation of gender in the world dominated by men. (1971)
Counihan described the process of baking bread in a small, isolated community on Sardinia where inhabitants kept the traditional distribution of masculine and feminine jobs. Women and men were assigned to their roles by gender by many generations that determine the hierarchy of their society with the leading role of man. Counihan (2008:288) Swenson according to Weedon states that the patriarchal model still exists in the veiled form in the modern, urban culture and it is recorded in the social consciousness by new media and state authorities who referred to social, cultural and structural tradition. Weedon (1997) also describes gender as a socially produced and historically changing aspect of identity that is shaped by cultural and
The gender division in the food preparation has an atavistic stigma. Men hunted and acquired meat; women were preparing meat at home and served it to the family. All primitive communities are characterised by the subordinate role of woman. Food in Douglas’ classification theory has been linked with rituals which adherence prevents the chaos and the social destruction. Deep divide between gender roles in the patriarchal model of society, became a precondition of social order. Douglas (1971)
This rule still applies to the present society and “the kitchen” becomes probably the last battlefield of gender in the western world. In this essay I will present arguments that patriarchal reproduction of gender affiliation still exists in the contemporary society and is strongly correlated with the food and the kitchen zone.
I will also present arguments that some significant changes have been recorded in the society which violate the old social order and have changed the understanding of male and female roles in the present society. Patriarchate on Sardinia
Douglas argued that the meal and rituals created around it reinforced the gender division and hierarchisation of gender in the world dominated by men. (1971)
Counihan described the process of baking bread in a small, isolated community on Sardinia where inhabitants kept the traditional distribution of masculine and feminine jobs. Women and men were assigned to their roles by gender by many generations that determine the hierarchy of their society with the leading role of man. Counihan (2008:288) Swenson according to Weedon states that the patriarchal model still exists in the veiled form in the modern, urban culture and it is recorded in the social consciousness by new media and state authorities who referred to social, cultural and structural tradition. Weedon (1997) also describes gender as a socially produced and historically changing aspect of identity that is shaped by cultural and