Calibrating motherhood

Cairns, Kate; Johnston, Josée; Oleschuk, Merin

doi:10.4324/9781315206974-11

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“…Additionally, concerns about health and food risks compound existing criticism of maternal foodwork performed by mothers who are low-income and/or racial minorities (Boero 2009;Brenton 2017;Carter and Anthony 2015;see Mason 2016;Kuyper, Smith, and Kaiser 2009). Faced with the many goals of foodwork, mothers feel pressured to scrupulously monitor what their children eat (Boero 2009;Cairns and Johnston 2015;Cairns, Johnston, and MacKendrick 2013;Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018;Cook 2009;Harman and Cappellini 2015;MacKendrick and Pristavec 2019;Patico 2020). This monitoring results in deep tensions, however, as mothers actively work against appearing overly controlling and reifying stereotypes of overbearing mothers (Patico 2020;Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018).…”

Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Faced with the many goals of foodwork, mothers feel pressured to scrupulously monitor what their children eat (Boero 2009;Cairns and Johnston 2015;Cairns, Johnston, and MacKendrick 2013;Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018;Cook 2009;Harman and Cappellini 2015;MacKendrick and Pristavec 2019;Patico 2020). This monitoring results in deep tensions, however, as mothers actively work against appearing overly controlling and reifying stereotypes of overbearing mothers (Patico 2020;Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018). Maternal foodwork is a delicate balance between avoiding stigmatized extremes and feeding children healthy meals (Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018).…”

Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This monitoring results in deep tensions, however, as mothers actively work against appearing overly controlling and reifying stereotypes of overbearing mothers (Patico 2020;Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018). Maternal foodwork is a delicate balance between avoiding stigmatized extremes and feeding children healthy meals (Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018). This delicate balance is also reflected in writing by female food bloggers who navigate tensions between appealing to appetites and maintaining control over these appetites through the preparation of healthy meals (Rodney et al 2017).…”

Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…MacKendrick 2013; Cairns, Johnson, and Oleschuk 2018;Cook 2009;DeVault 1991;Harman and Cappellini 2015;Mackendrick 2018;MacKendrick and Pristavec 2019;Patico 2020). Studies of parents of children with severe food allergies also identify tensions between keeping children safe, preserving food-related rituals, and providing nutritious diets for children (Stjerna et al 2014;Pitchforth et al, 2011).…”

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The joy of foodwork: allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020

Muñoz

Quirke

2021

Food, Culture & Society

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At a time when child health is receiving considerable attention, child feeding practices are under intense scrutiny as the site for developing healthy habits and preventing childhood illness. Previous scholars of foodwork detail the various types of labor involved in feeding children, purchasing foods, researching foods, preparing appealing meals, and managing emotions around these activities. Less scholarly attention has been given to the advice directed at parents -mothers in particular -about feeding children. Our study examines parenting advice on general feeding and feeding children with food allergies published between 1991 and 2020 in a Canadian mainstream parenting magazine. We build on Arlie Hochschild's concepts of emotion work and feeling rules, demonstrating that magazines instruct parents to manage emotions to create pleasurable eating experiences for children. We conclude with implications for studies of foodwork, emotion work and childrearing.

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Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Foodwork and Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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The joy of foodwork: allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020

Muñoz

Quirke

2021

Food, Culture & Society

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“…Thus, “good” motherhood is performed by purchasing health-promoting, environmentally sustainable, nontoxic foods, preparing them “with love” in a home kitchen, and eating them together as a family (Brenton 2017; Cairns, Johnston, and MacKendrick 2013; MacKendrick 2014). “Good” motherhood is relational, defined in binary opposition to the “bad” mother who is uninformed and inattentive, feeding her children processed and preprepared foods alone or on-the-go (Cairns and Johnston 2015; Cairns, Johnston, and Oleschuk 2018; Elliott and Brenton 2018).…”

Section: Centering Childhood Food Learning Within Gendered Cultural Smentioning

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Gender, Cultural Schemas, and Learning to Cook

Oleschuk

2019

Gender & Society

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While public health researchers stress the importance of home-cooked meals, feminist scholars investigate inequalities in family cooking, including why women still cook much more than men. Key to understanding these inequalities is attention to how people learn to cook, a relatively understudied topic by social scientists. To address this gap, this study employs the concept of cultural schemas. Drawing from qualitative interviews and observations of 34 primary cooks in families, I identify the ubiquity of a “cooking by our mother’s side” schema. This schema privileges culinary knowledge acquired during childhood through the social reproductive work of mothers. I argue, first, that this schema reproduces gendered inequalities over generations by reinforcing women as primary transmitters of cooking knowledge. Second, it presents an overly uniform picture of food learning that obscures diversity, especially by overemphasizing the importance of childhood and masking the learning that occurs later in life. Identifying and analyzing this schema offers opportunities to reconsider predominant approaches to food learning to challenge gendered inequalities in domestic foodwork.

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Between careful and crazy: the emotion work of feeding the family in an industrialized food system

MacKendrick

Pristavec

2019

Food, Culture & Society

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Calibrating motherhood

Cited by 15 publications

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The joy of foodwork: allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020

The joy of foodwork: allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020

Gender, Cultural Schemas, and Learning to Cook

Between careful and crazy: the emotion work of feeding the family in an industrialized food system

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