Oliver's Twist Leisure, Labour and Domestic Masculinity in the Naked Chef  

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Hollows, Joanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Cultural Studies vol. 6 no. 2 (Jun. 2003), page 229–248.
Topik: class; cooking; domestic labour; food; leisure; lifestyle; Masculinity; television
Fulltext: 229IJCS62.pdf (93.7KB)

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Despite the explosion of interest in cooking, there has been little research into the meanings that men bring to their cooking practices. This article examines how a mode of domestic masculinity is negotiated in Jamie Oliver's television shows and cookbooks. Drawing on Marjorie DeVault's work, in which she argues that cooking is a way in which women construct themselves as 'recognizably womanly', the article argues that in The Naked Chef cooking is constructed as 'recognizably manly' through association with 'recognizable masculinities'. The construction of the masculine domestic cook involves disavowing the extent to which cooking is a form of labour and constructing it as a 'fun' leisure and lifestyle activity. The article draws on Bourdieu's work to suggest that the ability to experience cooking as leisure is dependent on a distance from both economic and temporal constraints, a position that is both classed and gendered.

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