Tasteful domesticity : women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 /

"In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden demonstrates how women used the cookbook as a rhetorical space. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well a physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge across the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walden, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Colección:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Temas:
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Women and literature.
Rhétorique > Aspect social.
Femmes et littérature.
COOKING > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: taste and the American cookbook
  • Taste and virtue: domestic citizenship and the new republic
  • Taste and morality: motherhood and the making of a national body
  • Taste and region: the constitutive function of Southern cookbooks
  • Taste and science: cooking schools, home economics, and the progressive impulse
  • Taste and race: revisions of labor and domestic literacy in the early Twentieth century
  • Epilogue: the relevance of taste.

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