Manly Meals and Mom''s Home Cooking - Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America

Informationen zum Autor Jessamyn Neuhaus is an associate professor of U.S. history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh. She is the author of Housework and Housewives in Modern American Advertising: Married to the Mop . Klappentext In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking , Jessamyn Neuhaus offers a perceptive and piquant analysis of the tone and content of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, adroitly uncovering the cultural assumptions and anxieties--particularly about gender and domesticity--they contain. More than a history of the cookbook, this work provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America. "An engaging analysis . . . Neuhaus provides a rich and well-researched cultural history of American gender roles through her clever use of cookbooks."-- History: Reviews of New Books "Even if you missed Jell-O salads or Pu-Pu platters, after reading Neuhaus buying a cookbook will never be the same."-- American Historical Review "The entire book is well researched and documented, helping readers to see that cookbooks have supported America's dominant ideologies about gender."-- Gastronomica "An excellent addition to the history of women's roles in America, as well as to the history of cookbooks."-- Choice "The book has many strengths, including excellent research and cogent presentation . . . Good enough to entice more scholars to step into the kitchen."-- Journal of American History Zusammenfassung More than a history of the cookbook! Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.

Product details

• Authors: Jessamyn Neuhaus, Jessamyn (Plattsburgh Neuhaus
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2003
• EAN: 9780801871252
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7125-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, COOKING / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General cookery & recipes, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, General cookery and recipes