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Crowded Kitchens : the 'democratisation' of domesticity?
Meah, Angela; Jackson, Peter (2013-08)Building on previous work concerning the gendered nature of domestic space, this article focuses on the kitchen as a key site in which gendered roles and responsibilities are experienced and contested. As men have begun ... -
Domestic Kitchen Practices: Findings from the ‘Kitchen Life’ study
Wills, Wendy; Meah, Angela; Dickinson, Angela; Short, Frances (University of Hertfordshire, 2013-07-30)This report presents a study designed to investigate, document, analyse and interpret domestic kitchen practices. The study was intended to generate insights about ‘what goes on and why’ in UK kitchens, to inform the Food ... -
Fast Girls, Foreigners and GIs : An Exploration of the Discursive Strategies Through Which the Status of Pre-Marital (Hetero) sexual Ignorance and Restraint Was Upheld During the Second World War
Hockey, Jenny; Meah, Angela; Robinson, Victoria (2009-11-30)This paper explores contradictions within qualitative data gathered among women and men whose young adulthood coincided with the Second World War. These data were generated as part of an ESRC-funded project which investigated ... -
Food safety and older people : the Kitchen Life study
Dickinson, Angela; Wills, Wendy; Meah, Angela; Short, Frances (2014-05)Foodborne illness (FBI) is a major public health problem in the UK. Recent increases in cases of listeriosis in older people have focused attention on consumer food-related practices. Previous studies highlight poor ... -
For better or worse? Heterosexuality reinvented
Hockey, J.; Robinson, V.; Meah, Angela (2002-08-31)Based upon a series of focus group discussions carried out in East Yorkshire, this article contributes to debates on both the nature and theorising of heterosexual relationships that have recently been investigated from ... -
A heterosexual life : Older women and agency within marriage and the family
Hockey, J.; Meah, Angela; Robinson, V. (2004-11)This paper presents the life history of one older woman, Jean, and engages with feminist debates about the nature Of women's agency within institutionalised heterosexuality. As the data show, Jean grew up within an environment ... -
'I don't think I ever had food poisoning' : A practice-based approach to understanding foodborne disease that originates in the home
Wills, Wendy; Meah, Angela; Dickinson, Angela; Short, Frances (2015-02-01)Food stored, prepared, cooked and eaten at home contributes to foodborne disease which, globally, presents a significant public health burden. The aim of the study reported here was to investigate, analyse and interpret ... -
'I'm a sex kitten, aren't I...' : Relocating Agency and Pleasure in Older Women's Narratives about Sex
Meah, Angela; Hockey, Jenny; Robinson, Victoria (2011)This article draws on data collected as part of a two-year funded study concerning the making of modern heterosexuality in the East Yorkshire region of England. The starting point for our family-based empirical project has ... -
Introduction: Men and masculinities
Robinson, Victoria; Meah, Angela (2009) -
Lay perspectives on lay health worker roles, boundaries and participation within three UK community-based health promotion projects
South, J; Kinsella, K; Meah, Angela (2012)This paper examines lay interpretations of lay health worker roles within three UK community-based health promotion projects. It argues that understanding lay health worker roles requires critical analysis of the complex ... -
Mundane Heterosexualities : from theory to practices
Hockey, Jenny; Meah, Angela; Robinson, Victoria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) -
Reflections on the Use of Visual Methods in a Qualitative Study of Domestic Kitchen Practices
Wills, Wendy; Meah, Angela; Dickinson, Angela; Short, Frances (2016-06-01)Understanding everyday social practices is challenging as many are mundane and taken for granted and therefore difficult to articulate or recall. This paper reflects on the challenges encountered in a qualitative study ... -
Saints and Slackers : Challenging Discourses About the Decline of Domestic Cooking
Meah, Angela; Watson, Matt (2011-06-06)Amidst growing concern about both nutrition and food safety, anxiety about a loss of everyday cooking skills is a common part of public discourse. Within both the media and academia, it is widely perceived that there has ... -
'Think differently and be prepared to demonstrate trust' : findings from public hearings, England, on supporting lay people in public health roles
South, Jane; Meah, Angela; Branney, Peter E (2012)Professional support processes are critical for the establishment and maintenance of community health worker programmes. This paper reports on three public hearings held in England, UK, that were conducted as part of a ... -
Thinking 'taller' : sharing responsibility in the everyday lives of children with asthma
Meah, Angela; Callery, Peter; Milnes, Linda; Rogers, Sam (2010-07)Aims: To explore negotiation of responsibilities for asthma self-care between a group of preadolescent children aged 7-12 and their parents/carers and to explore the meaning of responsibility to these children and their ... -
What's sex got to do with it?
Meah, Angela; Hockey, Jenny; Robinson, Victoria (2008-08)This paper explores findings from a cross-generational study of the making of heterosexual relationships in East Yorkshire, which has interviewed women and men within extended families. Using a feminist perspective, it ...