Eating for victory : food rationing and the politics of domesticity
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Eating for victory : food rationing and the politics of domesticity
(Illini books)
University of Illinois Press, c1998
- : pbk
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Saga
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  Kumamoto
  Oita
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Note
Differs from <BA57619440> in series statement
Selected bibliography: p. [219]-234
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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