A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices

Lisa Taylor

A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 July 2008
Pages
228
ISBN
9780754672210

A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices

Lisa Taylor

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples’ identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics.
This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.

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