Seasoned Socialism

Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life
Herausgeber: Lakhtikova, Anastasia; Glushchenko, Irina; Brintlinger, Angela

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Produktbeschreibung

The works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780253040954
• ISBN-10: 0253040957
• Artikelnr.: 53921730

Autorenporträt

Anastasia Lakhtikova received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Angela Brintlinger is Professor of Slavic Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University and author of Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture (1917-1937) and Chapaev and His Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero across the Twentieth Century. Irina Glushchenko teaches in the School of Cultural Studies of the Division of Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She is author of Food and Drinks: Mikoyan and Soviet Cuisine and editor of Time, Forward! Cultural Politics in the USSR and (with Boris Kagarlitsky and Vitaly Kurennoy) of USSR: Life after Death.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Darra Goldstein
Introduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of
Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger
I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society
1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia /
Adrianne K. Jacobs
2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film /
Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia
Lakhtikova
3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks
and Identity Building / Anastasia Lakhtikova
II. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance,
Soviet-Style
4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's
House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe
5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious
Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina
6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell
7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered
Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia Levkovitch
III. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses
of Food
8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia W¿drowska's Taste for Scarcity /
Ksenia Gusarova
9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the
Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey
10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in
Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger
11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time /
Amelia Glaser
Afterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P.
Koenker
Index