Cooking lessons : the politics of gender and food /

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Other Authors: Inness, Sherrie A
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2001
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Table of Contents:
  • 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