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Kitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race /

At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line--mostly female--flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, work...

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Contributors: Inness, Sherrie A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Subjects and Genres:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Food habits > United States > History.
Women > United States > Psychology.
Women > United States > Attitudes.
Kitchens > Social aspects > United States.
Sex role > United States.
Food > sociology.
Feeding Behavior > history.
Women > psychology
Gender Identity > history.
Social Conditions > history
Race Relations > history
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes > États-Unis > Psychologie.
Femmes > États-Unis > Attitude (Psychologie)
Cuisines > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Attitudes.
Food habits.
Kitchens > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Sex role.
Social conditions
Women > Attitudes.
Women > Psychology.
Ernährungsgewohnheit.
Geschlechterrolle
Hauswirtschaft
Eetgewoonten.
Populaire cultuur.
United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
USA.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: thinking food/thinking gender / Sherrie A. Inness
  • Bonbons, lemon drops, and Oh Henry! bars: candy, consumer culture, and the construction of gender, 1895-1920 / Jane Dusselier
  • Campbell's soup and the long shelf life of traditional gender roles / Katherine Parkin
  • "Now then, who said biscuits?" The Black woman cook as fetish in American advertising, 1905-1953 / Alice A. Deck
  • The joy of sex instruction: women cooking in marital sex manuals, 1920-1963 / Jessamyn Neuhaus
  • "The enchantment of mixing-spoons": cooking lessons for boys and girls / Sherrie A. Inness
  • Home cooking: Boston baked beans and sizzling rice soup as recipes for pride and prejudice / Janet Theophano
  • Processed foods from scratch: cooking for a family in the 1950s / Erika Endrijonas
  • Freeze frames: frozen foods and memories of the postwar American family / Christopher Holmes Smith
  • She also cooks: gender, domesticity, and public life in Oakland, California, 1957-1959 / Jessica Weiss
  • "My kitchen was the world": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora / Doris Witt
  • "If I were a voodoo priestess": women's culinary autobiographies / Traci Marie Kelly.

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