Tasteful domesticity : women's rhetoric & the American cookbook, 1790-1940 /
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 cent...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822965138 0822965135 |