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Author:

Bentley, Amy, 1962-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States.
Women--United States--History--20th century.
Homemakers--United States--History--20th century.
Rationing--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN:

9780252024191 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252024192 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252067273 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0252067274 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38168249

LCCN:

97045471

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)