Cooking lessons : the politics of gender and food
This work explores the relationship between food and gender. It draws from diverse sources, and looks at women from various cultural backgrounds. Each chapter focuses on a food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2001
Aufsatzsammlung
xvii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780742515734, 9780742515741, 0742515737, 0742515745
46777393
Introduction: of meatloaf and Jell-o ... / Sherie Inness
Part I: The power of food
The cup of comfort / Paul Christensen
Honoring Helga, 'The little lefse maker': regional food as social marker, tradition, and art / Traci Marie Kelly
'I am an act of kneading': food and the making of Chicana identity / Benay Blend
Taking the cake: power politics in Southern life and fiction / Patricia Gantt
Part II: Media Images
Is meatloaf for men? Gender and meatloaf recipes, 1920-1960 / Jessamyn Neuhaus
Bananas: women's food / Virginia Jenkins
There's always room for resistance: Jell-o, gender and social class / Kathleen LeBesco
Part III: Class, race and food
Beating the biscuits in Appalachia: race, class and gender politics of women baking bread / Elizabeth Engelhardt
'Suckin' the chicken bone dry': African American women, fried chicken, and the power of a national narrative / Psyche Williams-Forson