Title Feeding fascism : the politics of women's food work / Diana Garvin

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Toronto Italian studies Toronto Italian studies. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed January 18, 2023) Subject Food habits -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Food -- Political aspects -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Fascism and women -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Women agricultural laborers -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Women in the food industry -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century Cooking -- Italy -- History -- 20th century Fascism -- Italy. HISTORY / Europe / Italy Cooking Fascism Fascism and women Food habits Women agricultural laborers Women in the food industry Women -- Social conditions Italy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487528201 1487528205 9781487528195 1487528191

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