Готвачката и готвачът (Женско и мъжко в кухнята)
The male cook and the female cook: gender roles in the kitchen

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes gender roles, identifications and power hierarchies in the field of eating and in the kitchen. The author argues that the kitchen is a system of cultural activities, in which the man and the woman not only compete with each other and exchange their power positions, and moreover it is a fi eld of emancipation for both men and women. The paper challenges the simplistic treatment of the kitchen as a “natural” woman’s place, opposed to the public places of the man and analyzes it as giving cultural opportunities to both men and women. Thus, on the basis of historical-cultural facts, the complex dialectics of male-female relationships in the fi eld of cooking is revealed.

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