From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies critical perspectives on women and food / Arlene Voski Avakian, Barbara Haber, editors.

Other author Avakian, Arlene Voski.
Other author Haber, Barbara.
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
Descriptionix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005010628
ISBN1558495126 (library cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1558495118 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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