[Gala-l] Gendered discourse about food and drink

[Sally McConnell-Ginet]

My husband and I ordered white and red wine respectively last night (in a restaurant in London).  The server offered the white to me and the red to him; when we said it was the other way around our server responded: "usually, ladies want white and gentlemen want red."  It often happens that they serve us the wrong wine but only seldom do they articulate their (gendered) reasons for doing so.

From: Gala-l <gala-l-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org<mailto:gala-l-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org>> on behalf of Bazil Manietta <Joseph.Manietta at Colorado.EDU<mailto:Joseph.Manietta at Colorado.EDU>>
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Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015 1:51 PM
To: "Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu<mailto:Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu>" <Joshua.Raclaw at Colorado.EDU<mailto:Joshua.Raclaw at Colorado.EDU>>
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Subject: Re: [Gala-l] Gendered discourse about food and drink

Hello,

There is also this article by Nicholas Harkness on soju (a popular alcohol) in South Korea. It talks about gender and the relationship between liquor and gender, but I don't know if you're looking for something outside of a U.S. context.

Harkness, N. (2013). Softer soju in South Korea. Anthropological theory, 13(1-2), 12-30.

Hope this helps!

Bazil Manietta




On Friday, September 4, 2015, Joshua Raclaw <Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu<mailto:Joshua.Raclaw at colorado.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

A student of mine is interested in looking more closely at the notion of "girl beers", "girly drinks", and other gendered constructions of alcohol (and food) products and consumption. Does anyone have any recommendations about research that has looked at similar topics, either dealing specifically with alcohol or with the broader gendering of food? (Hines' paper on gendered metaphors and food is the only thing that comes to mind.)

Suggestions for work in the area of language and gender preferred, but I'd also greatly appreciate broader approaches that may be relevant (e.g., Carol J. Adams' work on the gendered politics of meat, Rozin et al. 2012<http://www.jcr-admin.org/files/pressPDFs/032212085321_Rozin.pdf>).

Thanks in advance!

Josh


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​Joshua Raclaw, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate​, ​Center for Women's Health Research
Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.joshuaraclaw.info​


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