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Author Bentley, Amy, 1962-

Title Eating for victory : food rationing and the politics of domesticity / Amy Bentley.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  D810.W7 B45 1998    Available  ---
Description xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
Contents Rationing is good democracy -- Woman as wartime homemaker : family, food, and national security -- Islands of serenity : gender, race, and ordered meals -- Meat and sugar : consumption, rationing, and wartime food deprivation -- Victory gardening and canning : men, women, and home front family food production -- Freedom from want : abundance and sacrifice in U.S. postwar famine relief.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States.
Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Women.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Homemakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Homemakers.
Rationing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Rationing.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0252067274 paperback acid-free paper
0252024192 cloth acid-free paper