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Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Sherrie A. Inness
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Description for Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Paperback. How advertising and product packaging have kept women in the kitchen. Editor(s): Inness, Sherrie A. Num Pages: 296 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJPK; GTB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line-mostly female-flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows, movies, and even sex guides, food has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society. Kitchen Culture in ... Read more
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line-mostly female-flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows, movies, and even sex guides, food has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society. Kitchen Culture in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812217353
SKU
V9780812217353
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About Sherrie A. Inness
Sherrie A. Inness is Distinguished Laura C. Harris Chair of Women's Studies at Denison University. She is the author of Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press; The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life; and Intimate Communities: Representation and Social Transformation in Women's College Fiction, ... Read more
Reviews for Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Inness's authors . . . marshal an impressive array of archival materials to demonstrate the force of the social equation between femininity and cooking. The analyses . . . are original. -Times Literary Supplement Thoughtful and well researched. -Lambda Book Report