The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen : From Sokol'niki Park to Chicago's South Side /

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"Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era. This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen--the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism--was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev...

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Main Author: Baldwin, Kate A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sex role > Political aspects.
Race > Political aspects.
Propaganda.
Kitchens in literature.
International relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
1900 - 1999.
Cuisines > Dans les medias.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect politique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Race > Aspect politique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cuisines > Aspect politique > URSS > Histoire.
Cuisines > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Propagande > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre froide > Aspect politique.
Kitchens > In mass media.
Sex role > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Race > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Kitchens > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History.
Kitchens > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Propaganda > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Political aspects.
United States.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cold War, hot kitchen
  • Envy and other warm guns : Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow
  • Reframing the Cold War kitchen : Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the radical imaginary of The bell jar
  • Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the conditions of Cold War womanhood
  • Lorraine Hansberry and the social life of emotions
  • Selling the homeland : Silk Stockings, stilyagi, and style
  • Epilogue: A kitchen in history.

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