Date of Award
12-17-2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
First Advisor
Amira Jarmakani
Second Advisor
Gina Caison
Third Advisor
Susan Talburt
Abstract
This thesis examines contradictory stereotypes navigated by Latina celebrities within dominant representations of Latina identity. On one hand, Latinas are represented as traditional and family-oriented and on the other hand are understood as exotic and hypersexual. I argue that the marketing and content of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan serve to perpetuate dominant stereotypes about what it means to be/cook/eat Latina, which limits the possibilities for relating to food and creates a narrative of a static, homogenous Latina identity. By performing rhetorical analysis of cookbooks by Eva Longoria and Gloria and Emilio Estefan, I illustrate the ways in which the cookbooks function to legitimize both the ethnic authenticity of the celebrity author and of the cuisine itself.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/6016994
Recommended Citation
Cooke, Siobhan, "Cooking Up Authenticity: Latina Celebrities, Cookbooks, and Consumerism." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/6016994