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Journal Article
\Why can't you tell I'm disgusting?\ Reading Ainslie Hogarth's Dark Fantasy Novel Motherthing through a Gastrofeminist Lens
2024
Overview
Abby proceeds to kill, cut up, and cook another woman as Ralph's preferred dish Chicken à la King, serving it to her unsuspecting husband. The novel crystallizes and criticizes a traditional feminine taste ideal, wherein food should taste mild and familiar, and where gustatory experiments and culinary creativity would challenge the gastro-social order that Abby strives for. [...]Abby's self-loathing leads to the reproduction of unhealthy gender roles from her childhood home. (Højlund 6, my translation) Any discussion of 'good taste· thus derives from both a person's individual preferences that change over time-taste as an aesthetic category-and a universal standard that everyone in a society is expected to follow-taste as a moral category (Gronow 291).
