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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780176703321

Autore

Inness Sherrie A

Titolo

Dinner roles : American women and culinary culture / / Sherrie A. Inness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-58729-332-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 225 pages)

Disciplina

641.0820973

641.5973/082/0904

641.59730820904

Soggetti

Cooking, American

Cooking, American - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-216) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ''Bachelor Bait'' Men's Cookbooks and the Male Cooking Mystique; Chapter 2 ''The Enchantment of Mixing-Spoons'' Cooking Lessons for Girls and Boys; Chapter 3 Paradise Pudding, Peach Fluff, and Prune Perfection Dainty Dishes and the Construction of Femininity; Chapter 4 Wafe Irons and Banana Mashers Selling Mrs. Consumer on Electric Kitchen Gadgets; Chapter 5 ''Fearsome Dishes'' International Cooking and Orientalism between the Wars; Chapter 6 ''It's Fun Being Thrifty!'' Gendered Cooking Lessons during the Depression; Chapter 7 ''Wear This Uniform Proudly, Mrs. America!'' Rosie the Riveter in the Kitchen; Chapter 8 Of Casseroles and Canned Foods Building the Happy Housewife in the Fifties; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A stimulating collection of essays in which leading theorists of regionalism join with talented younger scholars in remapping the field. Revisionary in every sense, Breaking Boundaries asks fresh questions about traditional stalwarts, 'regionalizes' figures hitherto examined under other rubrics, and introduces readers to new authors and texts.--Carolyn L. Karcher, author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child