Towards Queering Food Studies
Foodways, Heteronormativity, and Hungry Women in Chicana Lesbian Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5237498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia C Ehrhardt (University of Oklahoma, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 91-109 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food and Foodways (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-9710 • E-ISSN: 1542-3484 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07409710600691931 |
| OpenAlex | W2086696686 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 4 |
As the nascent field of food studies takes shape, insights from queer studies have the potential to enrich our understandings of the interrelationships among food, gender, and sexuality. The project of queering food studies invites us to consider how food practices and beliefs reinforce and resist heterosexual gender ideologies. In this article, I analyze foodways in recent Chicana lesbian literature, examining writings that illustrate the cultural endurance of heteronormative constructions of gender even as they demonstrate how these beliefs are disrupted, destabilized, and transformed in queer literary kitchens. Poetry and essays by Chicana lesbians challenge dominant models of Chicana culinary roles by emphasizing women's efforts to satisfy their physical and sexual appetites.In particular, Carla Trujillo's 2003 novel, What Night Brings, highlights the figure of the hungry lesbian as a provocative counterpoint to the literary image of the Chicana as cook. Literature by Chicana lesbians not only invites scholars to question heteronormative assumptions about food, gender, and identity, but also demonstrates the potential of queer studies to enrich a variety of topics in food scholarship
Aesthetics · Art · Food studies · Foodways · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Ideology · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Scholarship · Sexual identity · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |