TitleKitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race / edited by Sherrie A. Inness.
PublishedPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
Descriptionviii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN0-8122-3564-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN978-0-8122-3564-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0-8122-1735-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN978-0-8122-1735-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted NoteContents: Introduction: thinking food/thinking gender / Sherrie A. Inness -- Bonbons, lemon drops, and Oh Henry! bars: candy, consumer culture, and the construction of gender, 1895-1920 / Jane Dusselier -- Campbell's soup and the long shelf life of traditional gender roles / Katherine Parkin -- "Now then, who said biscuits?" The Black woman cook as fetish in American advertising, 1905-1953 / Alice A. Deck -- The joy of sex instruction: women cooking in marital sex manuals, 1920-1963 / Jessamyn Neuhaus -- "The enchantment of mixing-spoons": cooking lessons for boys and girls / Sherrie A. Inness -- Home cooking: Boston baked beans and sizzling rice soup as recipes for pride and prejudice / Janet Theophano -- Processed foods from scratch: cooking for a family in the 1950s / Erika Endrijonas -- Freeze frames: frozen foods and memories of the postwar American family / Christopher Holmes Smith -- She also cooks: gender, domesticity, and public life in Oakland, California, 1957-1959 / Jessica Weiss -- "My kitchen was the world": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora / Doris Witt -- "If I were a voodoo priestess": women's culinary autobiographies / Traci Marie Kelly.
SubjectsFood habits -- United States -- History.
Kitchens -- Social aspects -- United States.
Sex role -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
Women -- United States -- Psychology.
Other AuthorsInness, Sherrie A.
LC Card Number00-39286
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: GT 2853 U5 K62 2001
mq242277: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 145301]