Abstract
A lockdown was declared in mid-March 2020 to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, a Southeast Asian society undergoing rapid modernization. Based on netnography, this study explores selected daily experiences of five professional women belonging to upper middle classes in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area, through digital discourses on foodways during the lockdown. It unveils the reconfiguration of the public and private spaces, leading to re-negotiations of the prescribed division of domestic food-related labour in conjunction with the support from family members and community. Testimonies of conflicted experiences are reported by women dealing with ambivalent injunctions and simultaneous implications for the social organisation of meals, specifically commodification and aesthetisation of the food preparation. All in all, the March 2020 Covid-19 lockdown provides a unique lens on the negotiations of prescribed division of domestic food- related work for the professional women in modernizing Malaysia.
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