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

Title
Kitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
Inness, Sherrie A.
Description
viii, 286 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Food habits > United States > History
  • Women > United States > Psychology
  • Women > United States > Attitudes
  • Kitchens > Social aspects > United States
  • Sex role > United States
  • United States > Social conditions
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 01-184
ISBN
  • 0812235649 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0812217357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
00039286
OCLC
43864404
Title
Kitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Inness, Sherrie A.
Research Call Number
JFE 01-184
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