Kitchen Culture in America Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race

Name: Kitchen Culture in America Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
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ISBN: 9780812217353

ISBN-10: 0812217357

ISBN-13: 9780812217353

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sherrie A. Inness

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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, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows, movies, and even sex guides, food has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society. Kitchen Culture in America is a collection of essays that examine how women's roles have been shaped by…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 9/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Thinking Food/Thinking Gender




Bonbons, Lemon Drops, and Oh Henry! Bars: Candy, Consumer Culture, and the Construction of Gender, 1895-1920




Campbell's Soup and the Long Shelf Life of Traditional Gender Roles




"Now Then--Who Said Biscuits?" The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905-1953




The Joy of Sex Instruction: Women and Cooking in Marital Sex Manuals, 1920-1963




"The Enchantment of Mixing-Spoons": Cooking Lessons for Girls and Boys




Home Cooking: Boston Baked Beans and Sizzling Rice Soup as Recipes for Pride and Prejudice




Processed Foods from Scratch: Cooking for a Family in the 1950s




Freeze Frames: Frozen Foods and Memories of the Postwar American Family




She Also Cooks: Gender, Domesticity, and Public Life in Oakland, California, 1957-1959




"My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora




"If I Were a Voodoo Priestess": Women's Culinary Autobiographies



List of Contributors


Index


Acknowledgments