Who's that cooking dinner? : the gendering of cooking and the home cook's identity in mid-twentieth century America / by Jillian Silverberg.

Through the use of food advertisements, letters, and cookbooks, my paper explores the progression of the home cooks identity and the gendering of cooking and the kitchen space in America between 1950 and 1995. Following the rise of American consumer culture at the end of the nineteenth century, comm...

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Main Author: Silverberg, Jillian (Author)
Corporate Author: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Simmons College, 2016.
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