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Article: The academy as kitchen - subversive perspective on the (prehistoric) paradigm of 'women-in-the-kitchen.'
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- Hecate
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- May 1, 2005
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1. The kitchen as reference point
I started in the academy in 1982 and since 1996 have been largely in 'management' positions in universities. I have developed an academic career along the way to the position I hold now, as one of the few women law Deans in Australia, a post I have been in for five years. I have also just accepted appointment for a further term of five years.
There are two cookbooks that I remember as universals: the Commonsense Cookery Book (published in 1943 by the NSW Public School Cookery Teachers Association) and the mid-Victorian classic, Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book (and her Book of Household Management). They were books of simple ...