Meah, A.M. (2016) Extending the contested spaces of the modern kitchen. Geography Compass, 10 (2). pp. 41-55. ISSN 1749-8198
Abstract
This essay seeks to broaden understandings of the domestic kitchen in the global North which consign its significance to the preparation or cooking of food, an activity assumed to be undertaken chiefly by women. Here, I take a social practice perspective, examining ‘the kitchen’ not as a monolithic physical ‘site’ (in the spatial sense) occupied primarily by women users, but as one where a range of practices cohere, reflecting multiple meanings and uses among those individuals who inhabit them. Exploring how the domestic kitchen has – over the last century – been conceptualised as a barometer of ideological dialectics, as an orchestrating concept and as the symbolic heart of the home, I reveal how this most humble of domestic spaces is both material and symbolic, figurative and substantive, rendering it a serious – but often neglected – object of academic inquiry.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s) Geography Compass © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Geography Compass. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2016 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12252 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/gec3.12252 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95613 |