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Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake-because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its effect on women's identity and lives. For example, food has often offered women a traditional way to gain power and influence in their households and larger communities. For women without access to other forms of creative expression, preparing a superior cake or batch of fried chicken was a traditional way to display their talent in an acceptable venue. On the other hand, foods and the stereotypes attached to them have also been used to keep women (and men, too) from different races, ethnicities, and social classes in their place.
Table of Contents
Part 2 The Power of Food
Chapter 3 The Cup of Comfort
Chapter 4 Honoring Helga, "The Little Lefse Maker": Regional Food as Social Marker, Art, and Tradition
Chapter 5 "I Am an Act of Kneading": Food and the making of Chicana Identity
Chapter 6 Taking the Cake: Power Politics in Southern Life and Fiction
Part 7 Media Images
Chapter 8 Is Meatloaf for Men? Gender and Meatloaf Recipes, 1920-1960
Chapter 9 Bananas: Women's Food
Chapter 10 There's Always Room for Resistance: Jell-O, Gender and Social Class
Part 11 Class, Race and Food
Chapter 12 Beating the Biscuits in Appalachia: Race, Class, and Gender Politics of Women Baking Bread
Chapter 13 "Suckin' the Chicken Bone Dry": African American Women, Fried Chicken, and the Power of a National Narrative
Product details
| Published | 30 Jul 2001 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780742515741 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 228 x 154 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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