'Politics of the Pantry' examines the rise and fall of the American housewife as a political constituency group and explores the relationship between the domestic sphere and the formation of political identity
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The history of women's involvement in politics has focused most heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century a far wider range of women has engaged in political activity when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their families and balance their h…
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The 1935 meat boycott and the evolution of domestic politics -- "Women -- the guardians of price control" : working-class housewives, consumer activism, and the state -- Esther Peterson and the American housewife : the White H…
The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politcs, but throughout the twentieth century women engaged in grassroots activism when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their families and balance their household ledgers. Politics of th…
Politics of the Pantry is a study of how American housewives used their identity to protest the high cost of food. It argues that women's involvement in labor politics needs to be seen not just in industry but also as consumer protest.
Buying (RED) productsofrom Gap T-shirts to Appleoto fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary cult…
Buying (RED) products from Gap T-shirts to Apple to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary cult…
Buying (RED) products from Gap T-shirts to Apple to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary cult…
Buying (RED) products from Gap T-shirts to Apple to fight AIDS. Drinking a "Caring Cup" of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary cult…
Citizens are asked to buy goods of all sizes and all prices, nearly of all the time. Yet appeals to political decision-making are less common. In 'The Consumer Citizen', Ethan Porter draws on more than a dozen original studies to investigate how the techniques of everyday consum…
Introduction -- The consumer citizen and consumer fairness -- The consumer citizen, politicians and policy -- The consumer citizen, political knowledge and political attitudes -- The consumer citizen, trust and operational transparency -- Consumers and citizens. "Americans spen…
"Americans spend far more time thinking about what to buy, and what not to buy, than they do about politics. Political leaders often make political claims while using consumer terminology. And political decisions resemble consumer decisions in surprising ways. Together, these fo…