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Category Archives: Gender

The Presidential Cookie Bake-Off

June 9, 2015by Sara Davis 1 Comment

In 1992, the public voted for Hilary Clinton’s cookies. How this cookie election came about is a little convoluted. To oversimplify: Clinton’s successful career in law became fodder for political opponents who wished to […]

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Dessert, Gender, Political Theater, Television

Hegel on the difference between men and women

April 24, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel explores the role of family and marriage in the stability of the state. For Hegel, the critical element of a marriage is opposite sexes which […]

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Body, Dissertation Discards, Gender, Philosophy

Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?

April 16, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Some intrepid researcher was led to my site by Googling this phrase: gender connotations to food So glad you asked! I’ve been working on a chapter on that very topic. I […]

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Dissertation Discards, Gender, Meat, Search Term Sampler, Vegetable

The gender of junk food in Disney’s short film “Feast”

November 18, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

This weekend, I went to see Big Hero 6 as a well-deserved break from the looming work deadlines that have been keeping me from my blog. (I do miss it […]

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"Junk" food, Film, Gender, Meat, Vegetable

Pizzacore, poetry, and gender

September 17, 2014by Sara Davis 3 Comments

Yesterday, The Hairpin posted a lengthy but well-considered examination of “snackwave” by Rookie writers Hazel Cills and Gabrielle Noone. “Snackwave” is the authors’ own term for the pop culture and social media […]

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"Junk" food, Cultural connotations, Gender, Trends

Link Buffet: Food for the eyes

August 15, 2014by Sara Davis Leave a comment

I’m delighted to be participating in Deborah Hemming’s Women in the Kitchen series, which explores the different relationships specific women have with cooking and kitchen spaces. As you may have […]

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Anthropomorphism, Fruit, Gender, Link Buffet, Sexuality, Visual appeal and presentation

Quick hit: Seeing Picasso in a sausage

June 27, 2014by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I recently came across this witticism in my reading: “A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”–A. P. Herbert The context is “Trott v. Tulip: […]

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Art, Class, Gender, Meat, Sound Bites

Sugar, Skin, and Porcelain

January 13, 2014by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Via Colossal, these vintage dishes covered with hand-painted ants by Evelyn Bracklow are delightfully creepy. I love the way the artist mimicks the clustering of ants when they swarm a […]

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Class, Disgust, Gender, Race, Sculpture

Link Buffet: Rants and Rhapsodies

November 5, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I enjoyed the lamb fennel tajine so much that I’m still talking about it, this time in more detail at the Penn Press Log. The recipe came from our new book Scheherazade’s Feasts, a […]

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Gender, Holidays, Link Buffet, Race

Sound Bites: Virginia Woolf

November 1, 2013by Sara Davis Leave a comment

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”—Virginia Woolf “The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes,” she adds wryly, […]

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Food Distribution and Resources, Gender, Sound Bites

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