Tasteful Domesticity : Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940 /

Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walden, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Aesthetics.
Women and literature.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Food writing > United States > History.
Cookbooks > Social aspects > United States.
Electronic books.
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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