Unequal foodwork
Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12912969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Fielding-Singh (0000-0002-1085-1066, University of Utah, corresponding author), Merin Oleschuk (0000-0002-7536-0292, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.13067 |
| OpenAlex | W4319835775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 171 |
Widespread inequities in diet and nutrition present a pressing public health problem. Sociologists working to illuminate the causes and contours of these inequities often center the role of family foodwork, or the multifaceted domestic labor that supports eating, including planning and preparing meals. Mounting sociological scholarship on foodwork considers how food's meanings are socially patterned to reflect broader social structures, ideologies and institutions that influence their manifestation and families' resources to enact them. Here, we present three core contributions from the sociology of foodwork that can advance essential transdisciplinary conversations around nutrition disparities as well as efforts to tackle these disparities. We lay out how (1) family foodwork is historically rooted in broader structures of capitalist exploitation and women's subordination, and today remains gendered through normative discourses equating “good” feeding with “good” mothering; (2) the moralization of foodwork is buttressed by an ideological context idealizing homecooked meals and lamenting foodwork's decline, and; (3) foodwork—and societal evaluations of it—are shaped and stratified by intersecting gendered, classed, and racial inequalities. After reviewing each contribution and its importance for addressing nutrition inequities, we conclude by advocating for a closer conversation across disciplines and highlighting important future directions for sociologists
Context (archaeology · Conversation · Environmental ethics · Ideology · Inequality · Normative · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Law · Obesity and Health Practices
Food is medicine intervention shows promise for engaging patients attending a safety-net hospital in the Southeast United States
Reconnecting with food
Taking cognisance of women’s domestic foodwork in the debate on ultra-processed foods
Turning Down Mum's Cooking
Vegan labor
Policy, Price, and Perception
Marital Conflict and Healthy Dietary Habits Among Preschoolers
Associations between cooking self-efficacy, attitude, and behaviors among people living alone
Exploring unequal class logics of mealtime food socialisation. An ethnography of family meals in France and Australia
Guilt and Beyond
Mealtime emotion work
Beyond a prescription
Feeding the family
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Food Politics
Food Justice Now!
Black Food Geographies
Food, Morals and Meaning
Diet-Related Disparities
Dietary Intake Among US Adults, 1999-2012
The State of US Health, 1990-2016
Does social class predict diet quality?
Who’s cooking? Trends in US home food preparation by gender, education, and race/ethnicity from 2003 to 2016
Moral Overtones of Food
Trends in US home food preparation and consumption
Trends in Obesity Among Adults in the United States, 2005 to 2014
Role of Food Prepared Away from Home in the American Diet, 1977-78 versus 1994-96
Trends in Dietary Quality Among Adults in the United States, 1999 Through 2010
Income and Race/Ethnicity Are Associated with Adherence to Food-Based Dietary Guidance among US Adults and Children
The Joy of Cooking?
Food, Health and Identity
More than a labour of love
Distinction
Shifting the Center
Black Feminist Thought
Researching the Vulnerable
The emotional management of motherhood
The Polluted Child and Maternal Responsibility in the US Environmental Health Movement
Eating for Taste and Eating for Change
Trends in Food Insecurity and SNAP Participation among Immigrant Families of U.S.-Born Young Children
The association between socioeconomic status and adult fast-food consumption in the U.S
Everyone would be around the table”
The family meals imperative and everyday family life
Understanding health promotion in a neoliberal climate and the making of health conscious citizens
Trends in Americans’ food-related time use
Diet quality – what is it and does it matter
The local food environment and diet
Relational Foodwork
The Socio‐Economic Boundaries Shaping Young People's Lunchtime Food Practices on a School Day
Should “acculturation” be a variable in health research? A critical review of research on US Hispanics
Conceptions of acculturation
A Taste of Inequality
Leave a Bowl of Fruit on the Kitchen Table”
Reinterpreting the gender gap in household pro-environmental behaviour
Locating Gender in Environmental Sociology
Fridge stories and other tales from the kitchen
Foodwork in Newly Married Couples
Between careful and crazy
From “Junk Food ” to “Treats”
The joy of foodwork
Acquired Tastes
Learning to eat the “right” way
The Online Domestic Goddess
Intersectionality and Food Studies
Latino Im/migrants, “Dietary Health” and Social Exclusion
Feeding the ‘organic child’
Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of Consumption
The rural and the rotund? A critical interpretation of food deserts and rural adolescent obesity in the Canadian context
Young people’s school food styles
Foodwork and foodcare in hard times
Expanding the joys of cooking
Food, fat and family
Cooking and femininity
Maternal and paternal controlling feeding practices with male and female children
Dining with dad
Whiteness and Farmers Markets
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies
On (not) knowing where your food comes from
Better Safe Than Sorry
Individualisation, Choice and Structure
The Politics of Disgust
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s)
Empowered to cook
The moral economy of ready-made food
How (not) to feed young children
Here We Have the Food Bank
Why healthy eating is bad for young people's health
You're worth what you eat
Feeding her children, but risking her health
The social organization of nutritional inequities
Food, eating and taste
Is healthy eating too expensive
Generational status, neighborhood context, and mother-child resemblance in dietary quality in Mexican-origin families
Table talk
Economic constraints on taste formation and the true cost of healthy eating
Assessment of acculturation in minority health research
Body Talk and Boundary Work Among Arab Canadian Immigrant Women
Health as a meaningful social practice
Being a 'good mother
Short horizons and obesity futures
Men nurturing through food
The Framing of Social Class Distinctions through Family Food and Eating Practices
Masculinity and the sociality of cooking in men's everyday lives
Lamenting the 'Decline of the Family Meal' as a Moral Panic ? Methodological Reflections
Morality and Health
Disenfranchised
The Impact of Covid-19 on Experiences of Food Insecurity Across Place
From Modernized Masculinity to Degendered Lifestyle Projects
Gender, Cultural Schemas, and Learning to Cook
More Work for Mother
Doing the Dirty Work
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |