| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Toronto Italian studies
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Toronto Italian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Tabletop Politics -- Toward an Autarchic Italy -- Agricultural Labour and the Fight for Taste -- Raising Children on the Factory Line -- Recipes for Exceptional Times -- Model Fascist Kitchens -- Conclusion: From Feeding Fascism to Eating Mussolini. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Feeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy's Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women's experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women's political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations-- cooking, feeding, and eating--to assert and negotiate their authority. Revealing the national stakes of daily choices, and the fine line between resistance and consent, Feeding Fascism attests to the power of food."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Food habits. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Food -- Political aspects -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Food. |
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Fascism and women -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Fascism and women. |
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Women agricultural laborers -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Women agricultural laborers. |
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Women in the food industry -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in the food industry. |
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Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Cooking -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
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Cooking. |
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Fascism -- Italy.
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Fascism. |
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HISTORY / Europe / Italy. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Garvin, Diana. Feeding fascism. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 1487528183 9781487528188 (OCoLC)1242465571 |
| ISBN |
9781487528201 electronic book |
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1487528205 electronic book |
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9781487528195 electronic book |
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1487528191 electronic book |
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9781487528188 hardcover |
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1487528183 hardcover |
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