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Feeding the extended family : gender, generation, and socioeconomic disadvantage in food provision to children
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Neuman, Nicklas, Eli, Karin and Nowicka, Paulina (2019) Feeding the extended family : gender, generation, and socioeconomic disadvantage in food provision to children. Food, Culture & Society, 22 (1). pp. 45-62. doi:10.1080/15528014.2018.1547066 ISSN 1552-8014.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1547066
Abstract
This paper examines how US parents and grandparents describe their provision of food to preschool-age children. Drawing on forty-nine interviews with sixteen families, most of which were socioeconomically disadvantaged, it is argued that gender and generation intersect in everyday efforts to care for children’s eating. The analysis explores gendered divisions of foodwork, highlights the struggles of single mothers, and examines fathers’ redefinitions of the paternal role to include feeding and caring for children. At the core of the analysis, however, is the participants’ emphasis on grandmothers as sources of knowledge and support, with both fathers and mothers citing grandmothers and other women of earlier generations as culinary influences and as role models for good parenting. The article thus discusses “feeding the extended family,” and concludes with a discussion about moving beyond the couple-focused paradigm of parenting in research on food and the gendered division of foodwork.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Food, Culture & Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Berg Publishers | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1552-8014 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 22 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 45-62 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/15528014.2018.1547066 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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