ISBN:
9781487551575
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 276 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian studies
DDC:
394.1/209450904
Keywords:
Food habits History 20th century
;
Food Political aspects 20th century
;
History
;
Fascism and women History 20th century
;
Women agricultural laborers History 20th century
;
Women in the food industry History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Cooking History 20th century
;
Fascism
;
Italien
;
Faschismus
;
Frau
;
Alltag
;
Ernährung
;
Sachkultur
Abstract:
"Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women’s political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations-- cooking, feeding, and eating--to assert and negotiate their authority. Revealing the national stakes of daily choices, and the fine line between resistance and consent, Feeding Fascism attests to the power of food."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Issued also in electronic format.
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