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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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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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.