ISBN:
9780190685607
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (209 pages)
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DDC:
305.409730904
Keywords:
Women--United States--History--20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Politics of the Pantry is a study of how American housewives used their identity to protest the high cost of food. It argues that women's involvement in labor politics needs to be seen not just in industry but also as consumer protest.
Abstract:
Cover -- Politics of the Pantry -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The 1935 Meat Boycott and the Evolution of Domestic Politics -- 2. "Women-The Guardians of Price Control": Working-Class Housewives, Consumer Activism, and the State -- 3. "Without Any Suspicion of . . . Communism": Domestic Politics during the Cold War -- 4. "What Do Housewives Do All Day?": The Suburbanization of Meat Boycotts and Supermarket Protests -- 5. Organizing in the 1970s: The Rise and Fall of Domestic Politics -- Epilogue "What We Want Is Food": Food Policy and Protests in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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