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Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture

By exploring a wide range of popular media including cook-books, advertisements and women's magazines, this book sheds light on the network of sources that helped perpetuate the notion that cooking is women's work, and explores the reasons why that notion has endured.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 238 pages

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