Eating the Other

Food and cultural difference in the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1960s

Bibliographic Data

ID3634653
AuthorsSusan Sheridan (0000-0003-0414-8259, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume21
Issue3
Pages319-329
Publication date2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713678985
OpenAlexW2027043292
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited4

This paper brings issues of gender and cultural difference together in analysing representations of food in a popular women's magazine during a period when the dominant culture's eating habits changed rapidly, in the 1960s. An examination of food advertising and cookery features in the Australian Women's Weekly brings into focus the domestic rather than the restaurant kitchen as a site of the turn to 'ethnic' foods. As a study of representations, it also highlights the variety of discourses constructing food and food-provision, the cultural values associated with certain foods through advertising, and the uses of food to mark social distinctions. In both respects - the focus on domesticity and the emphasis on discourse - this material enables questions about changing constructions of womanhood to be raised and articulated together with those of nation, ethnicity and class

Advertising · Business · Ethnic group · Focus group · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies

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