Cooking Lessons The Politics of Gender and Food

Name: Cooking Lessons The Politics of Gender and Food
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ISBN: 9780742515741

ISBN-10: 0742515745

ISBN-13: 9780742515741

Edition: 2001

Authors: Sherrie A. Inness

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Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake--because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives. Visit our…

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List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.07" wide x 8.97" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Of Meatloaf and Jell-O




The Power of Food



The Cup of Comfort




Honoring Helga, "The Little Lefse Maker": Regional Food as Social Marker, Tradition, and Art




"I Am an Act of Kneading": Food and the Making of Chicana Identity




Taking the Cake: Power Politics in Southern Life and Fiction




Media Images



Is Meatloaf for Men? Gender and Meatloaf Recipes, 1920-1960




Bananas: Women's Food




There's Always Room for Resistance: Jell-O, Gender, and Social Class




Class, Race, and Food



Beating the Biscuits in Appalachia: Race, Class, and Gender Politics of Women Baking Bread




"Suckin' the Chicken Bone Dry": African American Women, Fried Chicken, and the Power of a National Narrative



Index


About the Contributors