From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558495118 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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The essays in the second section explore how women have held families together by keeping them nourished, from the routines of an early nineteenth-century New Englander to the plight of women who endured the siege of Leningrad. Shroff, Sharmila Sen, Laura Shapiro, and Jan Whitaker.. These case studies range from the Caribbean to the San Luis Valley of Colorado. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. In the first section, four essays analyze the influence of large corporations in determining what came to be accepted as proper meal
"College-level students of culinary and feminist studies won't want to miss the unusual history (in this book)."The Bookwatch
Thirteen essays are arranged under four headings by history, representations, marketplace and resistances Midwest Book Review College-level students of culinary and feminist studies won't want to miss the unusual history in From Betty Crocker To Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives On Women And Food: it gathers scholarly essays from a range of disciplines to address issues of economics, society and culture in food history, using gender as its foundation. Thirteen essays are arranged under four headings by history, representations, marketplace and resistances, following the history of scholarly food writing and feminist food studies. From studies on the influence of large corporations in determining what made up a proper meal in this country to surve
Arlene Voski Avakian is professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and editor of Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking.Barbara Haber, former curator of books at the Schlesinger Library, is author of From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.