Küchengespräche

Heidi Kronenberg, Samuel Geiser, and Yoshiko Kusano invite you on a journey of discovery through today's household forms in "Kitchen Conversations." Through words and images, a mosaic of households is created, featuring a gay couple with two children, a trio of climate activist roommates sharing their finances, a senior living arrangement, and a family with traditional gender roles. No matter how we live together, organizing our daily lives remains an ongoing process of trying and negotiating.

Whether it concerns nutrition, traditions, child-rearing, or the division of tasks – nothing reflects societal change as sensitively as the household. No one can escape it. Either one does it or, more often, a woman does it. Or one lets others do it. But at what cost? Is housework a job like any other? Should it be paid? Or is it priceless because it involves closeness and love? Why is something so essential so little acknowledged in our consciousness? The book invites readers on a journey through the colorful landscape of households. Illustrated reports provide insights into various living arrangements. Additionally, conversations with experts offer enlightening backgrounds, including historian Elisabeth Joris, sociologist Ueli Mäder, gender researcher Franziska Schutzbach, care ethicist Ina Praetorius, economist Mascha Madörin, literary scholar Christine Lötscher, and philosopher Lisa Schmuckli.