Title: Eating for victory
First published: 1998
Description: Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged 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. Examining the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing, Eating For Victory decodes the dual message purveyed by the government and the media: while mandatory rationing was necessary to provide food for U.S. and Allied troops overseas, women on the home front were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Amy Bentley reveals the role of the wartime homemaker as a pivotal component not only of World War II but also of the development of the United States into a superpower.
Subjects: Rationing, History, World War, 1939-1945, Women, Homemakers, Housewives, Food supply, World war, 1939-1945, women, Women, united states, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: D810.W7 B45 1998