From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food by Barbara Haber and Arlene Voski Avakian

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  • ISBN 10 1281108847
  • ISBN 13 9781281108845
  • Published Jan 01 2005
  • Format eBook
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher University of Massachusetts Press
  • Imprint University of Massachusetts Press

Publishers Text

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned their attention to food to gain a better understanding of history, culture, economics, and society. The emerging field of food studies has yielded a great deal of useful research and a host of publications. Missing, however, has been a focused effort to use gender as an analytic tool. This stimulating collection of original essays addresses that oversight, investigating the important connections between food studies and women's studies. Applying the insights of feminist scholarship to the study of food, the thirteen essays in this volume are arranged under four headings - the marketplace, histories, representations, and resistances. Essays analyze the influence of large corporations in determining what came to be accepted as proper meals in the United States, including what mothers were expected to feed their babies. Also how women have held families together by keeping them nourished, from the routines of an early nineteenth-century New Englander to the plight of women who endured the siege of Leningrad.

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