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From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food
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Paperback. Sheds light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. This collection of essays investigates the connections between food studies and women's studies. From women in colonial India to Armenian American feminists, these essays show how food has served as a means to assert independence and personal identity. Editor(s): Avakian, Arlene Voski; Haber, Barbara. Num Pages: 432 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ1; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
In this book, feminist scholars shed new light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has been a focused effort to use gender as an analytic tool. This stimulating collection of original essays addresses that oversight, investigating the important connections between food studies and women's studies. Applying the insights of feminist scholarship ... Read more
In this book, feminist scholars shed new light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has been a focused effort to use gender as an analytic tool. This stimulating collection of original essays addresses that oversight, investigating the important connections between food studies and women's studies. Applying the insights of feminist scholarship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495111
SKU
V9781558495111
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Ref
99-15
About
ARLENE VOSKI AVAKIAN is professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and editor of Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking. BARBARA HABER, former curator of books at the Schlesinger Library, is author of From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.
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