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Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-cen…
'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
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.
Re-imaging Japanese women
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Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This uniqu…
