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Article: Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2004
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Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America. Jessamyn Neuhaus (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 336pp. $42.95/cloth).
Jssamyn Neuhaus's Manly Men and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America unpacks how cookbook authors and food writers envisioned gender roles in the kitchen throughout the twentieth century. Neuhaus traces the shifting discourse on gender and cooking by examining popular American cookbooks from the 1920s through the 1950s, although the first chapter quickly examines eighteenth and nineteenth century cooking manuals. Neuhaus divides her book into three chronological sections. The ...