Politics of the pantry : housewives, food, and consumer protest in twentieth-century America

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Politics of the pantry : housewives, food, and consumer protest in twentieth-century America

Emily E. LB. Twarog

Oxford University Press, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-174) and index

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The history of women's involvement in politics has focused most heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century a far wider range of women has engaged in political activity when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their families and balance their household ledgers. The Politics of the Pantry examines the rise and fall of the American housewife as a political constituency group. It examines how working- and middle-class housewives' relationship with the state evolved over the course of the century. Shifting the focus away from the workplace as a site of protest, it looks to the homefront as a starting point for protest in the public sphere. Emily Twarog has selected key moments when working- and middle-class women used consumer actions to embrace their socially ascribed roles as mothers and wives to demand economic stability for their families and communities. These include the Depression-era meat boycott of 1935, the consumer coalitions of the New Deal, and the wave of consumer protests between 1965 and 1973. She frames her narrative around the lives of several key labor and consumer activists and their organizations in both urban and suburban areas - Detroit, greater Chicago, Long Island, and Los Angeles. This geographic and chronological span allows for a national story from the progressive politics of the New Deal to the election of Ronald Reagan and the emergence of the conservative right. With a focus on food consumption rather than production, the book looks closely at the ways in food - specifically meat - was used by women as a political tool. These women both challenged and embraced the social and economic order, rather than simply being an oppositional force. And the domestic politics they engaged in, Twarog argues, were not simply the feminine version of labor activism nor auxiliary to the masculine solidarity of unions. Exploring the intersections of labor, community, home, and the market, POLITICS OF THE PANTRY makes a strong case for the connection of the domestic sphere and the formation of women's political and class identity in America.

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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: "Without Any Suspicion of...Communism": Domestic Politics during the Cold War 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

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