Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs "
English | ISBN: 1496845617 | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1496845617 | 2023 | 178 pages | PDF | 10 MB
2024 Honorable Mention Recipient for the Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors from the Popular Culture Association
Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoirs for the larger public to consume. Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs explores women’s food memoirs with recipes in order to consider the ways in which these women are rewriting this kitchen space and renegotiating their relationships with food.
Caroline J. Smith begins the book with a historical overview of how the space of the kitchen, and the expectations of women associated with it, have shifted considerably since the 1960s.
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