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cookbooks and gender in modern America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Neuhaus, Jessamyn
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 4 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- voeding, dagelijks leven, etniciteit, sociale klasse, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, tweede wereldoorlog
- Description
- From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In this bookb the author offers an analysis of American cookbooks published between the 1790s and the 1960s, uncovering the cultural assumptions particularly about women and domesticity they contain.While she finds that cookbooks aimed to make readers—mainly white, middle-class women—into effective, modern-age homemakers who saw joy in their domestic tasks, she notes that the phenomenal popularity of Peg Bracken's 1960 cookbook, The I Hate to Cook Book, attests to the limitations of this kind of indoctrination. At the same time, she explores the proliferation of bachelor cookbooks aimed at 'the man in the kitchen' and the biases they display about male and female abilities and responsibilities. Neuhaus also addresses the impact of World War II rationing on homefront cuisine: the introduction of new culinary technologies, gourmet sensibilities, and ethnic foods into American kitchens: and developments in the cookbook industry since the 1960s.
women performers, composers, and impresarios from the Baroque to the present
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Porter, Cecelia Hopkins
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 2012
- Thesaurus
- musici, componisten, dagelijks leven, huwelijken, moederschap, weduwen, Duitsland, Europa, Frankrijk, Oostenrijk, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Representing a historical cross-section of performance and training in Western music since the seventeenth century, this publication brings to light the private and performance lives of five women musicians and composers. Guiding readers through the thirty years war in central Europe, elite courts in Germany, urban salons in Paris, nazi control of Germany and Austria, and American musical life today, as well as personal experiences of marriage, motherhood, and widowhood, the author provides insights into the culture in which each woman was active: duchess Sophie-Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lueneberg (harpsichordist), Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (composer), Josephine Lang (pianist and composer), baroness Maria Bach (composer and pianist), Ann Schein (pianist). Mining musical autographs, unpublished letters and press reviews, interviews, and music archives in the United States and Europe, the author probes each musician's social and economic status, her education and musical training, the cultural expectations within the traditions and restrictions of each woman's society, and other factors.
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