Coming out of the kitchen: texts, contexts and debates

TY - JOUR

T1 - Coming out of the kitchen: texts, contexts and debates

AU - Floyd, J

PY - 2004/1

Y1 - 2004/1

N2 - This essay revisits prevailing assumptions about the domestic kitchen. While the status of this space and even its existence as a discrete area within the home have become a maater for discussion, the work of cooking located in the kitchen remains a compelling subject within a range of popular cultural forms. We are accustomed to thinking of the kitchen as a scene of routine and ritual, but here I explore its appearances as an improvisatory and rebellious zone. Such possibilities are not necessarily the outcome of shifting practices associated with the postmodern home and its representation. On the contrary, the kitchen has long been a space, both intimate and socially significant, from which to generate arguments about gender, class and nation.

AB - This essay revisits prevailing assumptions about the domestic kitchen. While the status of this space and even its existence as a discrete area within the home have become a maater for discussion, the work of cooking located in the kitchen remains a compelling subject within a range of popular cultural forms. We are accustomed to thinking of the kitchen as a scene of routine and ritual, but here I explore its appearances as an improvisatory and rebellious zone. Such possibilities are not necessarily the outcome of shifting practices associated with the postmodern home and its representation. On the contrary, the kitchen has long been a space, both intimate and socially significant, from which to generate arguments about gender, class and nation.

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M3 - Conference paper

VL - 11

SP - 61

EP - 73

JO - CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

JF - CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES

IS - 1

T2 - Conference on Geographies of Home

Y2 - 1 January 2004

ER -