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From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food /

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has bee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Avakian, Arlene Voski (Editor ), Haber, Barbara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Feminist food studies: a brief history / Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber
  • "I guarantee": Betty Crocker and the woman in the kitchen / Laura Shapiro
  • Counterintuitive: how the marketing of modernism hijacked the kitchen stove / Leslie Land
  • Feeding baby, teaching mother: Gerber and the evolution of infant food and feeding practices in the United States / Amy Bentley
  • Domesticating the restaurant: marketing the Anglo-American home / Jan Whitaker
  • Martha Ballard: a woman's place on the eastern frontier / Nancy Jenkins
  • Cooking to survive: the careers of Alice Foote MacDougall and Cleora Butler / Barbara Haber
  • Women under siege: Leningrad 1941-1942 / Darra Goldstein
  • Hiding gender and race in the discourse of commercial food consumption / Alice P. Julier
  • Indian spices across the black waters / Sharmile Sen
  • The border as barrier and bridge: food, gender, and ethnicity in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole M. Counihan
  • Women who eat too much: femininity and food in Fried Green Tomatoes / Laura Lindenfeld
  • Chili peppers as tools of resistance: Ketan Mehta's Mirch Mahala / Beheroze F. Shroff
  • Shish Kebab Armenians?: food and the construction and maintenance of ethnic and gender identities among Armenian American feminists / Arlene Voski Avakian.