EL - Gender, Domesticity

Question 1

Vicki Harman and Benedetta Cappellini study

Answer 1

Interview study from Primary school in Surrey on how mothers feel about preparing lunchboxes and how this links to wider domesticity, found that due to expectations of motherhood most mothers prepared similar pack lunches despite believing that they were crafting them to their child’s specific tastes

Question 2

Bridget Byrne argument

Answer 2

Motherhood is shaped by intersectional factors such as race, gender and class norms, by practicing motherhood I’m everyday life the mothers are repeatedly reaffirming these norms, maintaining the domesticated stereotype

Question 3

Susie Scott argument and Anne Murcott’s study

Answer 3

Murcott’s study of working class families in South Wales found that women saw cooking the family meal as an enjoyable experience, a privilege, she also notes that women still perform the majority of the work and men do very little in the way of cooking, illustrating how conventional domesticity is deeply rooted in the routines or working class families