Tasteful domesticity : women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 /
Walden, Sarah,
Tasteful domesticity : women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 / Women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 Women's rhetoric and the American cookbook 1790-1940 Sarah Walden. - 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations - Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture . - Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-215) and index.
Introduction: taste and the American cookbook -- Taste and virtue: domestic citizenship and the new republic -- Taste and morality: motherhood and the making of a national body -- Taste and region: the constitutive function of Southern cookbooks -- Taste and science: cooking schools, home economics, and the progressive impulse -- Taste and race: revisions of labor and domestic literacy in the early Twentieth century -- Epilogue: the relevance of taste.
"In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden demonstrates how women used the cookbook as a rhetorical space. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well a physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge across the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteenth century. Cook-books represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs, and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women's varied roles."--Cover
9780822983125 (electronic bk.) 0822983125 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctv69v1h JSTOR
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Women and literature.
Rhétorique--Aspect social.
Femmes et littérature.
COOKING--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Women and literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
TX645 / .W35 2018eb
641.5973
Tasteful domesticity : women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 / Women's rhetoric & the American cookbook 1790-1940 Women's rhetoric and the American cookbook 1790-1940 Sarah Walden. - 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) : illustrations - Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture . - Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-215) and index.
Introduction: taste and the American cookbook -- Taste and virtue: domestic citizenship and the new republic -- Taste and morality: motherhood and the making of a national body -- Taste and region: the constitutive function of Southern cookbooks -- Taste and science: cooking schools, home economics, and the progressive impulse -- Taste and race: revisions of labor and domestic literacy in the early Twentieth century -- Epilogue: the relevance of taste.
"In Tasteful Domesticity, Sarah Walden demonstrates how women used the cookbook as a rhetorical space. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well a physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge across the contested space of the self and the body, particularly for women in the nineteenth century. Cook-books represent important contact zones of social philosophies, cultural beliefs, and rhetorical traditions, and through their rhetoric, we witness women's varied roles."--Cover
9780822983125 (electronic bk.) 0822983125 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctv69v1h JSTOR
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Women and literature.
Rhétorique--Aspect social.
Femmes et littérature.
COOKING--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Rhetoric--Social aspects.
Women and literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
TX645 / .W35 2018eb
641.5973