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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 nineteenth century. Cook-books represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs, and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women's varied roles."--Cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822983125 0822983125 |