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...adults in the household, not children, who are responsible for food preparation, even when the children are older. And often, it is women who are responsible more than men. In turn, those roles imply particular social relations- patterned ways in which one group of people relate to another, often hierarchically. The social roles of food preparation imply a relation in...

...adults and children, the most fundamental realities of their lives: that to live well and escape poverty they will have to keep their families together at all costs and will have to work harder than the classes above them. In order to succeed the poor need most of all the spur of their poverty. (Gilder, 1981, p. 118) In this perspective, poverty is simultaneously natural...