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Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity.

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Walden advances the scholarship on cookbooks and housekeeping advice manuals by examining them through the lens of ‘taste’ and rhetorical theory. She demonstrates how such texts functioned in contradictory and complex ways, revealing in new ways the truly intersectional nature of domestic ideology—how prescriptive norms around home, gender, race, class, nation, and ethnicity work together and through each other."" - Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh

""Tasteful Domesticity delivers on its promise to model how we can and should read cookbooks for political, philosophical, national, gendered, and racial rhetorics worked out in their pages. By untangling subtle differences in the word ‘taste’ and in authors’ access to it, Walden changes both food studies in the humanities and nineteenth century women’s history."" - Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tasteful Domesticity Womens Rhetoric and the American Cookbook 17901940 Composition Literacy and Culture

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      Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
      Published 3/31/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780822965138
      978-0822965138
      ISBN-10 0822965135
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Speaking in public: advice and guides

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity.

      Trade Review
      Walden advances the scholarship on cookbooks and housekeeping advice manuals by examining them through the lens of ‘taste’ and rhetorical theory. She demonstrates how such texts functioned in contradictory and complex ways, revealing in new ways the truly intersectional nature of domestic ideology—how prescriptive norms around home, gender, race, class, nation, and ethnicity work together and through each other."" - Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh

      ""Tasteful Domesticity delivers on its promise to model how we can and should read cookbooks for political, philosophical, national, gendered, and racial rhetorics worked out in their pages. By untangling subtle differences in the word ‘taste’ and in authors’ access to it, Walden changes both food studies in the humanities and nineteenth century women’s history."" - Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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