Dinner Roles : American Women and Culinary Culture,9780877457626

Dinner Roles : American Women and Culinary Culture

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ISBN13: 9780877457626
ISBN10: 087745762X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Iowa Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(16)
``Bachelor Bait'': Men's Cookbooks and the Male Cooking Mystique
17(20)
``The Enchantment of Mixing-Spoons'': Cooking Lessons for Girls and Boys
37(15)
Paradise Pudding, Peach Fluff, and Prune Perfection: Dainty Dishes and the Construction of Femininity
52(19)
Waffle Irons and Banana Mashers: Selling Mrs. Consumer on Electric Kitchen Gadgets
71(17)
``Fearsome Dishes'': International Cooking and Orientalism between the Wars
88(21)
``It's Fun Being Thrifty!'' Gendered Cooking Lessons during the Depression
109(15)
``Wear This Uniform Proudly, Mrs. America!'' Rosie the Riveter in the Kitchen
124(17)
Of Casseroles and Canned Foods: Building the Happy Housewife in the Fifties
141(24)
Notes 165(22)
Works Cited 187(30)
Index 217

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