From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies
Subtitle: Critical Perspectives on Women And Food
Contributors: Arlene Voski Avakian (Editor); Barbara Haber (Editor)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: December 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781558495111
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Food; Sociology; Women; USA; Social aspects; Customs & Traditions; General; Regional & Ethnic - American - General; Cookery; Social conditions
First sentence: Representations of family meals even now when most married women work outside the home are often nostalgic evocations of warmth and safety-the haven presided over by father at the head of the table and mother serving some version of comfort food.