ABSTRACT Scholars have found that assumed connections between meat eating and performances of masculinity are perpetuated across the American public sphere. However, food expectations and choices are constantly shifting and evolving over time. Recent cultural shifts in the middle and upper-middle class American foodscape that moralize “good” eating as choosing local, organic, and eco-conscious foods, prompts the questioning of their social effects for vegetarian and vegan men, who hold a previously-stigmatized consumption identity. This article analyzes qualitative interviews conducted with twenty vegan and vegetarian men in a semi-urban area of the southeastern United States to better understand how they conceptualize and explain their food consumption identities in relation to their broader identity practices. I find their performances of masculinity often defy the conventional feminization of meatless diets, while also upholding gendered binaries of emotion/rationality and current tropes of white, middle-class masculinity.

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无肉餐和阳刚之气：素食*男人如何解释他们的植物性饮食

摘要 学者们发现，肉食与男子气概之间的假设联系在美国公共领域一直存在。然而，随着时间的推移，食物的期望和选择在不断变化和演变。最近美国中上阶层饮食文化的转变将“好”饮食道德化为选择当地、有机和生态意识的食物，这促使人们质疑它们对素食者和纯素食者的社会影响，他们持有先前被污名化的消费身份。本文分析了对美国东南部半城市地区的 20 名纯素食者和素食者进行的定性访谈，以更好地了解他们如何根据更广泛的身份实践来概念化和解释他们的食品消费身份。