num_pages: 272
description:        Victory gardens, ration books.        While men fought overseas, women fought the war at home, by going to work        and, more subtly, by feeding their families. Mandatory food rationing        during World War II challenged, for the first time, the image of the United        States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between women's        public and private lives by declaring home production and consumption        to be political activities.      In this fascinating cultural        history, Amy Bentley examines the food-related propaganda surrounding        rationing. She also explores the dual message purveyed by government and        the media that while mandatory rationing was necessary (enabling enough        food to be sent to the U.S. military and Allies overseas), women, black        and white, were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious        food.      Eating for Victory        explores the role of the Wartime Homemaker (media counterpart to the more        familiar Rosie the Riveter) as a pivotal component not only of World War        II but of the development of the United States into a superpower. 
language: English
title: Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity
titlecomplete: Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity
genres: Nonfiction, Food History, History, Food, World War II
ratings_count: 35
publisher: University of Illinois Press