Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945

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dc.contributor.authorStaub, Kimberly Annen
dc.contributor.committeechairJones, Kathleen W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMollin, Marian B.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNelson, Amyen
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:36:23Zen
dc.date.adate2012-05-29en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:36:23Zen
dc.date.issued2012-05-02en
dc.date.rdate2012-05-29en
dc.date.sdate2012-05-11en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis argues that cookbooks and cooking literature prescribed domesticity, specifically linked to the kitchen, as an obligation for American women in World War II. Building on the work of culinary historians and gender scholars, I argue that the government enlisted women as "kitchen citizens." In contrast to the obligations of male military service, government propaganda, commercially-published cookbooks, community cookbooks, and agriculture extension pamphlets used understandings of middle-class femininity to prescribe women's identity and role in the war effort as homemakers. Despite the popular memory of wartime women as Rosie-the-Riveters, this thesis suggests that working outside the home was a temporary and secondary identity. During World War II, cooking literature re-linked women's work inside the home to political significance and defined women's domestic responsibilities as an obligation of American female citizenship.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05112012-225008en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112012-225008/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32612en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
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dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWorld War IIen
dc.subjectdomesticityen
dc.subjectcitizenshipen
dc.subjectcookbooksen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.titleRecipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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