Cooking with Gordon’
Food, Health, and the Elasticity of Evangelical Gender Roles (and Belt Sizes) on The 700 Club
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12963379 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Travis Warren Cooper (Indiana University Bloomington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 108-124 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and Gender (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-5417 • E-ISSN: 2589-8051 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18785417-00301008 |
| OpenAlex | W4241369327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article examines evangelical gender paradigms as expressed through a 700 Club cooking segment facilitated by Gordon Robertson, the son of Pat Robertson – founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), The 700 Club , Christian Coalition, and one-time presidential candidate. Several themes converge within this cooking show, including health and nutrition, family ritual, and gender roles. Using the cooking segment as data, I draw on scholarship on body, gender, family and ritual to argue that evangelical discourses are labile in their responses to recent socio-cultural shifts and suggest that ‘Sunday Dinners: Cooking with Gordon’ defies caricatures of evangelical gender formation and signals a shift to soft-patriarchy and quasi-egalitarianism, at least within public, visual discourse. ‘Sunday Dinners’ underscores the centrality of the family in evangelical discourse – even as conceptions of gender are in flux – as it seeks to facilitate everyday rituals via cooking and eating together
Centrality · Club · Egalitarianism · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |