‘In the night kitchen’: Gender, identity and artisanal work

Using the theoretical lens of identity work, objective article is to explore how an entrepreneurial, female, artisan food producer constructed and enacted. Emphasis given a gendered examination entrepreneur as facets co-exist, compete or integrate. The relies on phenomenologically oriented case study that comprises numerous sources including primary data from multiple, in-depth, interviews. are used examine work undertaken by subject across following categories: dramaturgical, socio-cognitive, psycho-dynamic, discursive symbolic. makes modest contribution furthering understanding female entrepreneurial novel perspective.