Italian American women, food, and identity : stories at the table /

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dottolo, Andrea L. (Author), Dottolo, Carol (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "setting the table"
  • 1. "You were right down the street": place and space
  • 2. "Even a Medigan could do it": racial identities and Whiteness
  • 3. Gendered identities: love and labor
  • 4. "She was always on a die": bodies and shame
  • 5. "I remember you most in the kitchen": nostalgia--love, loss, and longing
  • 6. "But my mother ruled the table": food and power
  • 7. Method: how to survive writing a book with your mother/daughter
  • 8. "Beat everything": the recipes
  • Conclusion: after the meal
  • Appendix A: Interview protocol
  • Appendix B: the recipes
  • Index.