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A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen? The Relationship Between Gender, Food and Television

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Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

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As a creator and purveyor of popular culture, television has always had a relationship with food, one of our most basic instincts and needs. However in recent years, the widespread proliferation of a variety of cooking shows has turned the television schedule ‘into a kind of menu’ (Viviani, 2013: 166). Bell observes how ‘food has come to take centre stage in popular culture’ (1999: 204) and in particular, Britain has more food shows and TV chefs than any other nation (Versteegen, 2010: 447). In addition, gender, as Avakian and Haber pronounce, ‘is an enlightening lens through which food television may be analysed’ (2005: 6).

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Packham, C. (2016). A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen? The Relationship Between Gender, Food and Television. In: Bradley, P. (eds) Food, Media and Contemporary Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463234_6

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