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Dinner roles : American women and culinary culture
Title:
Dinner roles : American women and culinary culture
Author:
Inness, Sherrie A.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2001]

©2001
Physical Description:
x, 225 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
1. "Bachelor bait" : men's cookbooks and the male cooking mystique -- 2. "The enchantment of mixing-spoons : cooking lessons for girls and boys -- 3. Paradise pudding, peach fluff, and prune perfection : dainty dishes and the construction of femininity -- 4. Waffle irons and banana mashers : selling Mrs. Consumer on electric kitchen gadgets -- 5. "Fearsome dishes" : international cooking and orientalism between the wars -- 6. "It's fun being thrifty!" : gendered cooking lessons during the Depression -- 7. Wear this uniform proudly, Mrs. America!" : Rosie the Riveter in the kitchen -- 8. Of casseroles and canned foods : building the happy housewife in the fifties.
ISBN:
9780877457626

9780877457633
Format :
Book