Category: French

As a crucial component of « Italianicity », food is a common topic in the political discourse in Italy. The diffusion of the grammars and practices of food porn media offer new possibilities for political communication: in Italy, it’s especially…

Barbecuing is often highlighted as one of the most masculine forms of cooking. In this paper, I will analyse a recent Netflix documentary series, Chef’s Table: BBQ, with portraits of four different barbecue chefs, including two women. The barbec…

Many French doctors and psychiatrists in the colonial Maghreb supposed that spices, sexuality and the dangers of “primitive” masculinity were intrinsically linked. They regularly described Maghrebi food as unbearably spicy and, consequently, loc…

Previous research on migrant farmworkers’ resistance efforts in the US focuses on collective organizing but often fails to adopt an intersectional lens that considers farmworker women’s everyday acts of resistance. This study looks at Mexican fa…

In certain geopolitical contexts, women’s creative act of using aromas and spices to characterize and give flavour to dishes can become a powerful tool for gender claim and identity affirmation, and an economic resource to support women’s autono…

In contemporary rural Mali, when it comes to cooking, there is a strict division of labour. Women always make the meals. Each and every day, they transform raw ingredients into cooked fare for themselves and their families. Through their quotidi…

Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by…

The Marcha das Margaridas is a coalition of women and feminism movements, agrarian movements, trade unions, and international organizations that emerged in 2000. Women’s organizations that are part of a rural trade federation lead the process. W…

Dans la littérature scientifique en sciences humaines et sociales sur l’alimentation, la question du genre n’est abordée que depuis une trentaine d’années, souvent pour souligner la division sexuelle du travail relatif à l’alimentation, un domai…

A lockdown was declared in mid-March 2020 to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, a Southeast Asian society undergoing rapid modernization. Based on netnography, this study explores selected daily experiences of five professional women belong…

A lockdown was declared in mid-March 2020 to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, a Southeast Asian society undergoing rapid modernization. Based on netnography, this study explores selected daily experiences of five professional women belong…

Les kīrai, légumes feuilles, sauvages ou cultivés, sont consommés dans la ville de Pondichéry (Inde du Sud) par toutes les catégories de sa population. Oubliés des politiques publiques, ils contribuent à assurer l’apport en fibres, en micronutri…

Food media, such as Netflix’s Chef’s Table, presents both an empirical and a normative-aspirational dimension, communicating specific instructions and projecting powerful images of what constitutes a good meal and a culinary authority. This inve…

À travers une observation netnographique d’un groupe de cuisine Facebook marocain mixte et fondé par des hommes, cet article interroge les reconfigurations des normes alimentaires genrées dans l’espace numérique. Le confinement de 2020 a permis …

Rice is a staple in Sri Lanka and is often eaten with three or more condiments. This article explores the modes in which this staple transforms itself when it becomes a packaged commodity of ‘rice and curry’ (called “bath packets”) in Colombo. T…

This paper examines how a group of seventeen self-defined Brazilian feminists reacts to the idea of a moral link between feminism and vegetarianism, as developed by some ecofeminists in the eighties of the last century. These women argue in favo…

Cet article interroge les liens entre genre et alimentation à l’heure où les technologies et services alimentaires se démocratisent et où la norme égalitariste progresse. Il s’appuie sur un dialogue fictif entre un homme et une femme au restaura…

Dans cet article, nous proposons d’explorer les mobilisations alimentaires, à l’instar d’Auchan dégage, une campagne de protestation contre l’offensive de la grande distribution française au Sénégal, sous le prisme de l’approche du conflit, pers…