Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of DomesticityUniversity of Illinois Press, 1998 - 238 من الصفحات Victory gardens, ration books. While men fought overseas, women fought the war at home, by going to work and, more subtly, by feeding their families. Mandatory food rationing during World War II challenged, for the first time, the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between women's public and private lives by declaring home production and consumption to be political activities. In this fascinating cultural history, Amy Bentley examines the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing. She also explores the dual message purveyed by government and the media that while mandatory rationing was necessary (enabling enough food to be sent to the U.S. military and Allies overseas), women, black and white, were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Eating for Victory explores the role of the Wartime Homemaker (media counterpart to the more familiar Rosie the Riveter) as a pivotal component not only of World War II but of the development of the United States into a superpower. |
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Rationing Is Good Democracy | 9 |
Woman as Wartime Homemaker Family Food and National Security | 30 |
Islands of Serenity Gender Race and Ordered Meals | 59 |
Meat and Sugar Consumption Rationing and Wartime Food Deprivation | 85 |
Victory Gardening and Canning Men Women and Home Front Family Food Production | 114 |
Freedom from Want Abundance and Sacrifice in US Postwar Famine Relief | 142 |
Epilogue | 171 |
Notes | 181 |
Selected Bibliography | 219 |
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