Emily E Lb Twarog

Politics of the Pantry

Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780190685591
• ISBN-10: 019068559X
• Artikelnr.: 48431079

Autorenporträt

Emily E. LB. Twarog is an Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and American History in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The 1935 Meat Boycott and the Evolution of Domestic
Politics
* Chapter 2: "Women - The Guardians of Price Control": Working-Class
Housewives, Consumer Activism, and the State
* Chapter 3: Esther Peterson and the American Housewife: The White
House Years
* Chapter 4: "What Do Housewives Do All Day?":The Suburbanization of
Meat Boycotts and Supermarket Protests
* Chapter 5: Organizing in the 1970s: The Rise and Fall of Domestic
Politics
* Epilogue "What we want is food": Food Policy and Protests in the 21st
Century
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index