Mise en scène du genre dans les émissions culinaires italiennes

The Food work/Food leisure alignment is a useful analytical perspective to describe the relationships between gender and nutrition. Television broadcasts compete to reproduce a certain social order through the use of a series of discursive repertoires. Cooking shows propose some models of gender conforming to the heteronormative order whereas makeover shows communicate the idea that control of the female body is a moral question. The analyses described in this article are the fruit of media ethnography conducted over a year, from August 2012 to August 2013, on Italian television production around food and diets.