A Fitting “Social Model”

Culturally Locating Telemadre.Com

Bibliographic Data

ID12877832
AuthorsSarah Pink (0000-0003-0073-8382, corresponding author), Ana Martínez Pérez (0000-0003-2316-1045, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Year2006
Volume3
Issue1
Pages63-86
Publication date2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHome Cultures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1740-6315 • E-ISSN: 1751-7427
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/174063106778053237
OpenAlexW2080598625
LanguageEN
References cited19

Telemadre.com is a website that represents what its producers call a “social model,” by which, for a fee, unemployed mothers cook meals for young professionals who do not have time to cook for themselves. In this paper we analyze this “social model” as a mediated relationship that is related to existing strands of contemporary Spanish culture and society. Drawing from existing ethnographic research and an analysis of the website itself we suggest the success of telemadre.com lies in (1) the ambiguous line it draws between (fictive) kinship and economic transaction; (2) its cultural embeddedness in diverse contemporary and traditional Spanish understandings of gender roles, expertise and knowledge; and (3) the mediated nature of the social relationships it entails

Database transaction · Embeddedness · Ethnography · Kinship · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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