TY - JOUR

T1 - Gender and Children's Food Practices

T2 - A Qualitative Study of 12-14 Year Old Children in a Danish School Setting

AU - Leer, Jonatan

AU - Krogager, Stinne Gunder Strøm

AU - Povlsen, Karen Klitgaard

AU - Højlund, Susanne

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - In this article, we will focus on gender and food among children in Danish home economics classes—more specifically, children aged 12–14 (6th and 7th graders in the Danish school). The aim of the study is to investigate whether the traditional gender representations found in studies of children’s food media are replicated in children’s food practices in a school setting. The article concludes that gender is not as manifest as other studies have indicated, notably those on media representations of children and food. This is not to say that gender distinctions were absent but that they were expressed in more subtle ways. Also, the article highlights the importance of paying attention to different kinds of food practices, and how they might be gendered differently by the same subjects. The article calls for more research in the field and more broadly on the complex relationship between gendered media representation and social practices in everyday life.

AB - In this article, we will focus on gender and food among children in Danish home economics classes—more specifically, children aged 12–14 (6th and 7th graders in the Danish school). The aim of the study is to investigate whether the traditional gender representations found in studies of children’s food media are replicated in children’s food practices in a school setting. The article concludes that gender is not as manifest as other studies have indicated, notably those on media representations of children and food. This is not to say that gender distinctions were absent but that they were expressed in more subtle ways. Also, the article highlights the importance of paying attention to different kinds of food practices, and how they might be gendered differently by the same subjects. The article calls for more research in the field and more broadly on the complex relationship between gendered media representation and social practices in everyday life.

KW - COOKING

KW - Food and gender

KW - MASCULINITY

KW - MEN

KW - children

KW - cooking

KW - gender and media

KW - home economics

KW - school

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067577217&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/08038740.2019.1609087

DO - 10.1080/08038740.2019.1609087

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85067577217

VL - 27

SP - 181

EP - 193

JO - NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

JF - NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

SN - 0803-8740

IS - 3

ER -