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- Women’s work in the kitchen: everyday cooking through the eyes of an anthropologist
- Pushkareva N.L. Women’s work in the kitchen: everyday cooking through the eyes of an anthropologist. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2025, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 19–24 (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-2-19-24
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-2-19-24
- УДК: 392
- EDN: WNGKBK
- Publish date: 2025-02-18
- Annotation: Historical anthropology of nutrition in its gender understanding is a new area of knowledge about the Past. Is it possible to imagine culinary practice as time devoted to rest and (moreover) leisure rather than the content of everyday life, reduced to tedious and routine housework and a ‟second shift” for women (giving rise to gender asymmetries)? Oral history materials collected as sequences of unstructured biographical interviews confirm this guess. A social anthropologist will, however, consider these confessions to contain some embellishment of reality and, more precisely, the flow of work into leisure or a special type of work-leisure, characteristic especially of creative individuals (regardless of profession and sex) and, often, workers in the intellectual sphere, who can more freely than others, manage their time budget.
- Keywords: women’s history, historical anthropology of everyday life, culinary practices, housework, free time, leisure, rest
- Funding and acknowledgments: Supported by the Grant of the Russian Science Foundation No. 24-718-10005 ‟The Women’s Voice of Russian Science in the 1800–1980s.”
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