Feminine Women Can Cook: Difference between revisions

* Parodied in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', where confused crossdresser Nobby Nobbs believes he's expected to do the cooking because he's a woman. To make it even sillier, there is an actual woman present, but Sergeant Angua "doesn't do cookery" (She's an Independent Career Woman. She's also a vegetarian werewolf, who prefers to avoid the smell of meat in human form.)

* [[Little Women|Louisa May Alcott]] was very fond of this trope. The scenes putting Jo March through the 'feminine redemption for the tomboy' version in ''LW[[Little Women]]'' were repeated in several other of Alcott's novels and short stories, as her heroines contemplate taking up a profession and are firmly told that the most honourable profession for any woman is to [[Stay in the Kitchen|make a happy, comfortable home for her family.]] There is however a semi-subversion in ''Eight Cousins''—while this is specifically tied to the small heroine learning to bake the perfect loaf of bread, it's presented as only one aspect of an education that also involves learning to sail, ride and generally become 'strong-minded', right alongside her seven boy cousins.