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Feeding fascism

the politics of women's food work
Author: Search for this author Garvin, Diana (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Diana Garvin
Year: 2023
Publisher: Toronto [u.a.], University of Toronto Press
Media group: Book/Buch
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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.

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Author: Search for this author Garvin, Diana (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Diana Garvin
Year: 2023
Publisher: Toronto [u.a.], University of Toronto Press
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Classification: Search for this systematic 8
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ISBN: 978-1-4875-5157-5
ISBN (2nd): 978-1-4875-2818-8
Description: xv, 276 Seiten, Illustrationen
Tags: Fascism, Fascism and Women, Women, Food Habit, Cooking, Women Agricultural Labourers, Women in the Food Industry, Faschismus, Faschismus und Frauen, Woman, weiblich, Frau, Frauen, Eating Habit, Ernährungsverhalten, Kochen, Landwirtschaftliche Arbeiterinnen, Frauen in der Lebensmittelindustrie
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Language: eng
Media group: Book/Buch