From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food

Avakian, Arlene Voski, (editor.). Haber, Barbara, (editor.).

Summary: 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 to the study of food, the thirteen essays in this volume are arranged under four headings--the marketplace, histories, representations, and resistances. The editors open the book with a substantial introduction that traces the history of scholarly writing on food and maps the terrain of feminist food studies. In the essays that follow, contributors pay particular attention to the ways in which gender, race, ethnicity, class, colonialism, and capitalism have both shaped and been shaped by the production and consumption of food.

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ISBN: 9781558495128
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 299 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2005.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.24 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.