DOCSLIB.ORG

A Cultural Study of Gendered Onscreen

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Cultural Study of Gendered Onscreen VEG-GENDERED: A CULTURAL STUDY OF GENDERED ONSCREEN REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOD AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR VEGANISM by Paulina Aguilera A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL August 2014 Copyright by Paulina Aguilera, 2014 11 VEG-GENDERED: A STUDY OF GENDERED ONSCREEN REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOD AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR VEGANISM by Paulina Aguilera This thesis was prepared under the direction of the candidate's thesis advisor, Dr. Christine Scodari, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, and has been approved by the members of her supervisory committee. It was submitted to the faculty of The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE: ~t~;,~ obe, Ph.D. David C. Williams, Ph.D. Interim Director, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies Heather Coltman, DMA Dean, ;~~of;candLetters 0'7/0 /:fdf4 8 ~T.Fioyd, Ed.D~ -D-at_e _ _,__ ______ Interim Dean, Graduate College 111 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge Dr. Christi ne Scodari for her incredible guidance and immeasurable patience during the research and writing of this thesis. Acknowledgements are also in order to the participating committee members, Dr. Chris Robe and Dr. Fred Fejes, who provided further feedback and direction. Lastly, a special acknowledgement to Chandra Holst-Maldonado is necessary for her being an amazing source of moral support throughout the thesis process. l V ABSTRACT Author: Paulina Aguilera Title: Veg-gendered: A Study ofGendered Onscreen Representations of food and their Im plications for Veganism Institution: Florida Atlantic University Thesis Advisor: Dr. Christine Scodari Degree: Master of Arts Year: 2014 This thesis is an exploration of popular media texts that influence veganism, with either explicit representations or implicit messages that implicate vegans. Research focuses on the question: Ilow does the gcndering of food in popular media texts implicate veganism? Theories used include a combination of cultural, film, and feminist studies, including Stuatt HaWs audience reception, Laura Mulvey's male gaze, R.W. Conne!Ps hegemonic masculinity, Carol Adams' feminist-vegetarian critical theory, and Rebecca Swenson's critical television studies. A print a.nd television advertisement analysis demonstrates the gendering of food, and subject-object relationship of meat, women, and men. A film analysis of texts with vegan characters and horror film texts with implicit vegan and feminist messaging follows, thus revealing interesting trends and developments in the characterization of v vegans on fi lms, and hidden messages in the horror fi lms studied. Lastly, an examination of competitive and instructional cooking shows ends the analysis, with interesting challenges to hegemony present in these television texts. The thesis concludes with examples of modem media feminizing veganism through food associations, the problematic imagery of women and meat as fetishized objects, along with challenges to hegemony that exist in some explicitly vegan texts. V I DEDICATION Without my family’s continuing support during the research and writing process of my thesis, this manuscript would still be an idea that never came to fruition. I dedicate this work to the persistent questioning of Hugo Aguilera, Teresa Barraza, and Javiera Aguilera, whose inquisitiveness kept me going even when I was ready to give up. I also dedicate this to my at-home supervisor and incredibly sharp husband, Chris Miranda. His willingness to push me into my “cave” to finish this manuscript is what got me through to the end. I am happy to say that I can finally fire him from his supervisory duties. Lastly, I dedicate this work to my inspiring aunt, Eva Barraza, a fellow animal lover and health nut who believed in my ability to make even my wildest dreams come true. VEG-GENDERED: A STUDY OF GENDERED ONSCREEN REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOD AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR VEGANISM FIGURES ........................................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 1 I. Introduction ................................................................................................. 1 II. Vegetarian vs. Vegan: A Look at Language ................................................ 2 III. Statistics and Modern Use of the Term “Vegetarian” ................................ 3 IV. Vegetarian & Vegan Schools of Thought .................................................... 4 V. Issues to be Addressed ................................................................................ 6 VI. Literature Review ........................................................................................ 7 A. Theoretical Sources .................................................................................. 7 1. Cultural Theory ..................................................................................... 7 2. Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory .................................................... 8 3. Feminist Film Theory .......................................................................... 12 B. Food & Culture ........................................................................................ 13 VII. Research Procedures & Methodology ..................................................... 18 A. Advertisements....................................................................................... 18 B. Film ........................................................................................................ 19 C. Television ............................................................................................... 21 VIII. Forthcoming Chapters ............................................................................. 22 viii CHAPTER TWO: ANALYSIS ........................................................................................ 23 I. Advertisements ......................................................................................... 24 II. Film Analysis ............................................................................................ 39 A. Vegan Characters in Film ...................................................................... 40 1. Year of the Dog (2007) ....................................................................... 40 2. Seven Pounds (2008)........................................................................... 47 3. Scott Pilgrim Versus the World (2010) ............................................... 50 B. Horror Films ........................................................................................... 53 1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) ............................................... 54 2. Texas Chainsaw (2013)....................................................................... 63 III. Television Analysis .................................................................................. 67 A. Competitive Cooking Shows ................................................................. 67 B. Instructional Cooking Shows ................................................................. 77 CHAPTER THREE: CONCLUSIONS & FURTHER RESEARCH ............................... 86 I. Conclusions on Advertisements ................................................................ 86 II. Conclusions on Film ................................................................................. 89 III. Conclusions on Television ........................................................................ 91 IV. Implications of This Study........................................................................ 94 V. Further Research ....................................................................................... 97 A. Documentary Film ................................................................................. 97 B. Anarchism & Veganism ......................................................................... 98 C. Intersections of Veganism, Race & Sexuality ...................................... 100 D. Other Televised Competitive Uses of Animal Products ...................... 102 ix WORKS CITED ............................................................................................................. 103 x FIGURES Figure 1: Gendering vegetables and eating salad as feminine (2007) .................................... 24 Figure 2: Gendering meat and cooking meat as masculine (2007) ......................................... 25 Figure 3: BK Super Seven Incher campaign (2009) ................................................................... 26 Figure 4: A scantily clad Paris Hilton in front of a Bentley (2005). ..................................... 30 Figure 5: Arby’s ad, Sports Illustrated (2009) .............................................................................. 32 Figure 6: “I’d Rather Go Naked (2003) .......................................................................................... 36 Figure 7: “All Animals Have the Same Parts” (2010) ................................................................ 36 Figure 8: PETA’s Lettuce Ladies (2013)........................................................................................ 36 x i CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION “As long as man continues to be
Load more

Recommended publications
  • It's a (Two-)Culture Thing: the Laterial Shift to Liberation
    Animal Issues, Vol 4, No. 1, 2000 It's a (Two-)Culture Thing: The Lateral Shift to Liberation Barry Kew rom an acute and, some will argue, a harsh, a harsh, fantastic or even tactically naive F naive perspective, this article examines examines animal liberation, vegetarianism vegetarianism and veganism in relation to a bloodless culture ideal. It suggests that the movement's repeated anomalies, denial of heritage, privileging of vegetarianism, and other concessions to bloody culture, restrict rather than liberate the full subversionary and revelatory potential of liberationist discourse, and with representation and strategy implications. ‘Only the profoundest cultural needs … initially caused adult man [sic] to continue to drink cow milk through life’.1 In The Social Construction of Nature, Klaus Eder develops a useful concept of two cultures - the bloody and the bloodless. He understands the ambivalence of modernity and the relationship to nature as resulting from the perpetuation of a precarious equilibrium between the ‘bloodless’ tradition from within Judaism and the ‘bloody’ tradition of ancient Greece. In Genesis, killing entered the world after the fall from grace and initiated a complex and hierarchically-patterned system of food taboos regulating distance between nature and culture. But, for Eder, it is in Israel that the reverse process also begins, in the taboo on killing. This ‘civilizing’ process replaces the prevalent ancient world practice of 1 Calvin. W. Schwabe, ‘Animals in the Ancient World’ in Aubrey Manning and James Serpell, (eds), Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives (Routledge, London, 1994), p.54. 1 Animal Issues, Vol 4, No. 1, 2000 human sacrifice by animal sacrifice, this by sacrifices of the field, and these by money paid to the sacrificial priests.2 Modern society retains only a very broken connection to the Jewish tradition of the bloodless sacrifice.
    [Show full text]
  • Derogatory Discourses of Veganism and the Reproduction of Speciesism in UK 1 National Newspapers Bjos 1348 134..152
    The British Journal of Sociology 2011 Volume 62 Issue 1 Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK 1 national newspapers bjos_1348 134..152 Matthew Cole and Karen Morgan Abstract This paper critically examines discourses of veganism in UK national newspapers in 2007. In setting parameters for what can and cannot easily be discussed, domi- nant discourses also help frame understanding. Discourses relating to veganism are therefore presented as contravening commonsense, because they fall outside readily understood meat-eating discourses. Newspapers tend to discredit veganism through ridicule, or as being difficult or impossible to maintain in practice. Vegans are variously stereotyped as ascetics, faddists, sentimentalists, or in some cases, hostile extremists. The overall effect is of a derogatory portrayal of vegans and veganism that we interpret as ‘vegaphobia’. We interpret derogatory discourses of veganism in UK national newspapers as evidence of the cultural reproduction of speciesism, through which veganism is dissociated from its connection with debates concerning nonhuman animals’ rights or liberation. This is problematic in three, interrelated, respects. First, it empirically misrepresents the experience of veganism, and thereby marginalizes vegans. Second, it perpetuates a moral injury to omnivorous readers who are not presented with the opportunity to understand veganism and the challenge to speciesism that it contains. Third, and most seri- ously, it obscures and thereby reproduces
    [Show full text]
  • Vegetarian Starter Guide
    do good • fEEL GREAt • LOOK GORGEOUS FREE The VegetarianSTARTER GUIDE YUM! QUICK, EASY, FUN RECIPES +30 MOUTHWATERING MEATLESS MEALS EASy • affordABLE • inspirED FOOD Welcome If you’re reading this, you’ve already taken your first step toward a better you and a better world. Think that sounds huge? It is. Cutting out chicken, fish, eggs and other animal products saves countless animals and is the best way to protect the environment. Plus, you’ll never feel more fit or look more fabulous. From Hollywood A-listers like Kristen Bell and Ellen, to musicians like Ariana Grande and Pink, to the neighbors on your block, plant-based eating is everywhere. Even former president Bill Clinton and rapper Jay-Z are doing it! Millions of people have ditched chicken, fish, eggs and other animal products entirely, and tens of millions more are cutting back. You’re already against cruelty to animals. You already want to eat healthy so you can have more energy, live longer, and lower your risk of chronic disease. Congratulations for shaping up your plate to put your values into action! And here’s the best part: it’s never been easier. With this guide at your fingertips, you’re on your way to a fresher, happier you. And this is just the start. You’ll find more recipes, tips, and personal support online at TheGreenPlate.com. Let’s get started! Your Friends at Mercy For Animals reinvent revitalize rewrite rediscover your routine. With the your body. Healthy, plant- perfection. This isn’t about flavor. Prepare yourself easy tips in this guide, based food can nourish being perfect.
    [Show full text]
  • Books Added to the Collection: July 2014
    Books Added to the Collection: July 2014 - January 2015 *To search for items, please press Ctrl + F and enter the title in the search box at the top right hand corner or at the bottom of the screen. LEGEND : BK - Book; AL - Adult Library; YPL - Children Library; AV - Audiobooks; FIC - Fiction; ANF - Adult Non-Fiction; Bio - Biography/Autobiography; ER - Early Reader; CFIC - Picture Books; CC - Chapter Books; TOD - Toddlers; COO - Cookbook; JFIC - Junior Fiction; JNF - Junior Non Fiction; POE -Children's Poetry; TRA - Travel Guide Type Location Collection Call No Title AV AL ANF CD 153.3 GIL Big magic : creative living / Elizabeth Gilbert. Irrationally yours : on missing socks, pick up lines, and other existential puzzles / Dan AV AL ANF CD 153.4 ARI Ariely. Think like a freak : the authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain /Steven D. AV AL ANF CD 153.43 LEV Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner AV AL ANF CD 153.8 DWE Mindset : the new psychology of success/Carol S. Dweck AV AL ANF CD 158 BRO Rising strong / Brene Brown. AV AL ANF CD 158.1 URY Getting to yes with yourself and other worthy opponents/William Ury 10% happier : How I tamed the voice in my head, reduced stress without losing my edge, AV AL ANF CD 158.12 HAR and found self-help that actually works - a true story / Dan Harris CD 158.12 AV AL ANF Your present : a half hour of peace / Susie Mantell. MAN AV AL ANF CD 179.9 BRO The road to character / David Brooks.
    [Show full text]
  • 219 No Animal Food
    219 No Animal Food: The Road to Veganism in Britain, 1909-1944 Leah Leneman1 UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH There were individuals in the vegetarian movement in Britain who believed that to refrain from eating flesh, fowl, and fish while continuing to partake of dairy products and eggs was not going far enough. Between 1909 and 1912, The Vegetarian Society's journal published a vigorous correspond- ence on this subject. In 1910, a publisher brought out a cookery book entitled, No Animal Food. After World War I, the debate continued within the Vegetarian Society about the acceptability of animal by-products. It centered on issues of cruelty and health as well as on consistency versus expediency. The Society saw its function as one of persuading as many people as possible to give up slaughterhouse products and also refused journal space to those who abjured dairy products. The year 1944 saw the word "vergan" coined and the breakaway Vegan Society formed. The idea that eating animal flesh is unhealthy and morally wrong has been around for millennia, in many different parts of the world and in many cultures (Williams, 1896). In Britain, a national Vegetarian Society was formed in 1847 to promulgate the ideology of non-meat eating (Twigg, 1982). Vegetarianism, as defined by the Society-then and now-and by British vegetarians in general, permitted the consumption of dairy products and eggs on the grounds that it was not necessary to kill the animal to obtain them. In 1944, a group of Vegetarian Society members coined a new word-vegan-for those who refused to partake of any animal product and broke away to form a separate organization, The Vegan Society.
    [Show full text]
  • Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights Critical Animal Studies 2
    Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights Critical Animal Studies 2 General Editors: Helena Pedersen, Stockholm University (Sweden) Vasile Stănescu, Mercer University (U.S.) Editorial Board: Stephen R.L. Clark, University of Liverpool (U.K.) Amy J. Fitzgerald, University of Windsor (Canada) Anthony J. Nocella, II, Hamline University (U.S.) John Sorenson, Brock University (Canada) Richard Twine, University of London and Edge Hill University (U.K.) Richard J. White, Sheffield Hallam University (U.K.) Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights Carrie P. Freeman Amsterdam - New York, NY 2014 Critical Animal Studies 2. Carrie P. Freeman, Framing Farming: Communication Strategies for Animal Rights. 1. Kim Socha, Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde. A Paradigm for Animal Liberation. This book is printed on recycled paper. Cover photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-3892-9 E-Book ISBN: 978-94-012-1174-1 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2014 Printed in The Netherlands Table of Contents List of Images 9 Foreword 11 Author’s perspective and background 11 Acknowledgements 14 Dedication 15 Chapter 1: Introduction 17 Themes and Theses in This Book 19 The Unique Contributions of This Book 20 Social Significance of Vegetarianism & Animal Rights 22 The Structure and Content of This Book 26 Word Choice 29 PART I OVERVIEW OF ANIMAL RIGHTS, VEGETARIANISM, AND COMMUNICATION Chapter 2: Ethical Views on Animals as Fellows & as Food 33 Development of Animal Activism in the United States 34 Western Thought on Other Animals 36 Western Vegetarian Ethics 43 Human Eating Habits 62 Chapter 3: Activist Communication Strategy & Debates 67 Communication and the Social Construction of Reality 68 Strategies for Social Movement Organizations 75 Ideological Framing Debates in U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION 2011 By
    MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION 2011 By: Representatives Frierson, Formby To: Rules HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 40 1 A RESOLUTION COMMENDING AND CONGRATULATING MISS WHITNEY 2 MILLER OF POPLARVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, FOR WINNING THE TITLE OF 3 "MASTERCHEF" IN SEASON ONE OF FOX TELEVISION NETWORK'S REALITY 4 COOKING COMPETITION SERIES "MASTERCHEF." 5 WHEREAS, on September 15, 2010, University of Southern 6 Mississippi senior, Whitney Miller, was crowned "MasterChef" of 7 FOX Television's first season of "MasterChef," a reality cooking 8 competition series hosted by celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay; and 9 WHEREAS, she auditioned for the show in New Orleans, 10 Louisiana, and was one of 50 top chefs selected from around the 11 nation; and 12 WHEREAS, in the competition's finale, this 22-year-old 13 college student prevailed against a 29-year-old software engineer 14 from Boston, capturing the title of "MasterChef," $250,000.00 in 15 prize money and a contract to publish her own cookbook; and 16 WHEREAS, her winning meal included an appetizer of sweet 17 shrimp on a crispy corn cake, a main course of fried chicken with 18 creamed collard greens, and a dessert of bread pudding with 19 raspberry coulis and white chocolate sauce; and 20 WHEREAS, the second of three children born to Mary and John 21 Miller of Poplarville, Mississippi, Whitney developed her passion 22 and love for food at a young age by creating delicious meals with 23 her mother; and 24 WHEREAS, coined the "Pastry Princess" by the judges, her 25 giggly cute-as-could-be exterior concealed a steely 26 self-confidence that propelled this nutrition and biology major to 27 become a culinary champion; and H.
    [Show full text]
  • Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2015: Prize Money and Purse
    Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest 2015: Prize Money and Purse Payout Details Personal Finance Syndication Network - http://pfsyn.com The Fourth of July traditionally calls for watching a baseball game or fireworks with a hot dog in hand (or three). But even if you tend to overeat on all-American dishes on this food-centric holiday, your over- indulgence is probably nothing compared to the food an elite group of athletes will be gorging themselves on — and the money they’ll be earning — competing in Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4. This annual eating competition, staged at Coney Island in New York City, is a bona fide sporting event (participants are even referred to as athletes). It’s a true nationally-televised contest of intestinal fortitude between the world’s bravest and best competitive eaters. On Saturday afternoon, the competitors will race against the clock to down as many hot dogs as they can within 10 minutes and get a chance at a piece of the total $40,000 purse payout. Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest Prize Money Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest is as historic as the company itself. Started in 1916, the 2015 contest marks the 99th time that fans and contestants alike have gathered from across the world (and aspiring contestants) to watch this amazing feat of hot dog consumption; in recent years, according to the Nathan’s Famous website, the event has attracted up to 35,000 spectators. Not just anyone can enter the eating contest, however. Contestants were required to participate in one of 13 qualifying events held from April to June in various cities across the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Animals Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal Volume 5, Issue 1
    AAnniimmaallss LLiibbeerraattiioonn PPhhiilloossoopphhyy aanndd PPoolliiccyy JJoouurrnnaall VVoolluummee 55,, IIssssuuee 11 -- 22000077 Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal Volume 5, Issue 1 2007 Edited By: Steven Best, Chief Editor ____________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Steven Best, Chief Editor Pg. 2-3 Introducing Critical Animal Studies Steven Best, Anthony J. Nocella II, Richard Kahn, Carol Gigliotti, and Lisa Kemmerer Pg. 4-5 Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights Katherine Perlo Pg. 6-19 Animal Rights Law: Fundamentalism versus Pragmatism David Sztybel Pg. 20-54 Unmasking the Animal Liberation Front Using Critical Pedagogy: Seeing the ALF for Who They Really Are Anthony J. Nocella II Pg. 55-64 The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU-Approved Steven Best Pg. 65-81 BOOK REVIEWS _________________ In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave, by Peter Singer ed. (2005) Reviewed by Matthew Calarco Pg. 82-87 Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, by Matthew Scully (2003) Reviewed by Lisa Kemmerer Pg. 88-91 Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella, II, eds. (2004) Reviewed by Lauren E. Eastwood Pg. 92 Introduction Welcome to the sixth issue of our journal. You’ll first notice that our journal and site has undergone a name change. The Center on Animal Liberation Affairs is now the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, and the Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal is now the Journal for Critical Animal Studies. The name changes, decided through discussion among our board members, were prompted by both philosophical and pragmatic motivations.
    [Show full text]
  • Durham Research Online
    Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 28 June 2018 Version of attached le: Submitted Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Atkinson, S. (2016) 'Care, kidneys and clones : the distance of space, time and imagination.', in The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press., pp. 611-626. Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities. Further information on publisher's website: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-critical-medical-humanities.html Publisher's copyright statement: Additional information: Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Care, Kidneys and Clones: the distance of space, time and imagination Sarah Atkinson Department of Geography and the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University ‘We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.’ (Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid’s Tale)1 Care as a concept is central to any engagement with health, ill-health and the practices that aim to prevent, mitigate or cure, and the term itself is mobilised in a variety of different ways and at a variety of different scales.
    [Show full text]
  • 2. We and They
    2. We and They Democracy is becoming rather than being. It can easily be lost, but never is fully won. Its essence is eternal struggle. WILLIAM H. HASTIE OVERVIEW Chapter 1 focused on factors that shape an individual’s identity. It also described how those factors are sometimes used to exclude people from membership in various groups. Chapter 2 considers the ways a nation’s identity is defined. That definition has enormous significance. It indicates who holds power in the nation. And it determines who is a part of its “universe of obligation” – the name Helen Fein has given to the circle of individuals and groups “toward whom obligations are owed, to whom rules apply, and whose injuries call for [amends].”1 For much of world history, birth determined who was a part of a group’s “universe of obligation” and who was not. As Jacob Bronowski once explained, “The distinction [between self and other] emerges in prehistory in hunting cultures, where competition for limited numbers of food sources requires a clear demarcation between your group and the other group, and this is transferred to agricultural communities in the development of history. Historically this distinction becomes a comparative category in which one judges how like us, or unlike us, is the other, thus enabling people symbolically to organize and divide up their worlds and structure reality.”2 This chapter explores the power of those classifications and labels. As legal scholar Martha Minow has pointed out, “When we identify one thing as like the others, we are not merely classifying the world; we are investing particular classifications with consequences and positioning ourselves in relation to those meanings.
    [Show full text]
  • Haley Messner 619-312-1212 [email protected]
    Haley Messner 619-312-1212 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GRAHAM ELLIOT INVITES YOU TO TAKE A BITE OF SOMETHING AWESOME AT THE 15TH ANNUAL SAN DIEGO BAY WINE + FOOD FESTIVAL® Celebrity Chefs, Winemakers, And Tastemakers To Host Epic Festival of Food, Wine and Culture, November 11-18, 2018 San Diego, CA (October 24, 2018) – Travel to San Diego. Arrive at Awesome. As one of the country’s most talked about weeks in food and wine, the San Diego Bay Wine + Food Festival® announces an impressive lineup of celebrity chefs, winemakers, and artisans for its 15th annual festival held November 11-18, 2018. This year’s talent lineup includes, nationally recognized celebrity chefs, legendary winemakers, guest mixologists, James Beard Award-winning authors, Master Sommeliers, brewmasters, artisans and tastemakers, such as: Graham Elliot, Television Personality and Author; Alex Thomopoulos, Chef, Host and Food Blogger; Duskie Estes of Zazu Kitchen + Farm; Michael Ruhlman, American Author and Cook; Abraham Conlon, of Fat Rice; Michael Schlow, of Schlow Restaurant Group; the Hearty Boys television personalities, Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh; Stephanie Prida of The Pool; Dean James Max of DJM Restaurants; Katsuya Fukushima of Daikaya; Javier Plascencia of Jazamango, Mision 19, Erizo, Finca Altozano, Caffe Saverios, and ¡Lupe!; Domenica Catelli of Catelli’s; Laura Werlin, Author of The All American Cheese and Wine Book; Suzette Gresham of Acquerello; Gale Gand, acclaimed pastry chef; Flor Franco of Encuentro Guadalupe, Convivia, Resguardo; Travis Swikard formerly of Boulud Sud, Bar Boulud, and Epicerie Boulud; Matt Zubrod of The Little Nell; Chad White of Zona Blanca; and more.
    [Show full text]