The challenges of 're-engaging with food' connecting employment, household patterns and gender relations to convenience food consumption in North America

Food, Culture and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-566

  Szabo, Michelle ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convenience food; Foodwork cooking; Gender division of labor; Slow food; Social reproduction; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053579154     PISSN: 15528014     EISSN: 17517443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174411X13046092851514     Document Type: Article

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