Title Kitchen culture in America : popular representations of food, gender, and race / edited by Sherrie A. Inness

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line-mostly female-flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows, movies, and even sex guides, food has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society. Kitchen Culture in America is a collection of essays that examine how women's roles have been shaped by the principles and practice of consuming and preparing food. Exploring popular representations of food and gender in American society from 1895 to 1970, these essays argue that kitchen culture accomplishes more than just passing down cooking skills and well-loved recipes from generation to generation. Kitchen culture instructs women about how to behave like "correctly" gendered beings. One chapter reveals how juvenile cookbooks, a popular genre for over a century, have taught boys and girls not only the basics of cooking, but also the fine distinctions between their expected roles as grown men and women. Several essays illuminate the ways in which food manufacturers have used gender imagery to define women first and foremost as consumers. Other essays, informed by current debates in the field of material culture, investigate how certain commodities like candy, which in the early twentieth century was advertised primarily as a feminine pleasure, have been culturally constructed. The book also takes a look at the complex relationships among food, gender, class, and race or ethnicity-as represented, for example, in the popular Southern black Mammy figure. In all of the essays, Kitchen Culture in America seeks to show how food serves as a marker of identity in American society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Food habits -- United States -- History Women -- United States -- Psychology Women -- United States -- Attitudes Kitchens -- Social aspects -- United States Sex role -- United States Feeding Behavior -- history Food -- sociology Gender Identity -- history Race Relations -- history Social Conditions -- history Women -- psychology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Food habits Kitchens -- Social aspects Race relations Sex role Social conditions Women -- Attitudes Women -- Psychology Ernährungsgewohnheit Geschlechterrolle Hauswirtschaft Eetgewoonten. Populaire cultuur. Gender roles Alimentació -- Estats Units d'Amèrica -- Història. Hàbits alimentaris -- Estats Units d'Amèrica. Dones -- Psicologia -- Estats Units d'Amèrica. SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511 United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States USA Genre/Form History Aufsatzsammlung. Essays. Form Electronic book Author Inness, Sherrie A., editor ISBN 9781512802887 1512802883

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