Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity 1st Printing Edition

by Amy Bentley (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0252067274

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Victory gardens, ration books. While men fought overseas, women fought the war at home, by going to work and, more subtly, by feeding their families. Mandatory food rationing during World War II challenged, for the first time, the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between women's public and private lives by declaring home production and consumption to be political activities.

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"An important book. More so than any other work in food history, Bentley has put politics, both local and national, into the history of foodways... Her analysis of rhetoric, posters, advertisements, photography, table settings, and arrangement of people at dinners enables her to explore eating as a cultural activity. Above all, her weaving of social history, public policy, and anthropologically-informed cultural analysis underscores the complexity of her achievement." -- Daniel Horowitz, American Quarterly

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; 1st Printing edition (October 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252067274
ISBN-13: 978-0252067273
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
Average Customer Review: 3 customer reviews
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Wonderful book on an important--but nearly forgotten--topic

ByRobert L. Ferretton November 24, 2006

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Most of the people who were most affected by food rationing--the housewives who had to provide healthy meals for their families--are gone now. Everyone remembers Rosie the Riveter, but few remember the Domestic Army, and the propaganda that accompanied the policies of the Office of Price Administration, by the government, and more importantly by Madison Avenue. This book looks at the mechanics of mandatory food rationing, and then considers the politics and propaganda involved in making food rationing work.

The book is filled with a variety of examples of government rhetoric, Madison Avenue advertising, cookbook instructions, radio broadcasts, diaries, letters, posters, and comments. The scope of research involved in this study is staggering. The book is very well written. It is often difficult to turn a dissertation into an interesting book, but Amy Bentley has succeeded admirably. There are a number of intersting photographs and illustrations, although I would have liked to see even more. This is a fascinating book, and deserving of a much larger audience.

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Fascinating

ByHappygalon May 19, 2013

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This book discusses how we approached food and eating during WWII. From Victory Gardens to government rationing, we see how everyone pulled together to get creative with shopping, growing, eating and canning as a community, something we just don't see today.

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An earnest, academic look at Homemakers & the Home Front

ByJayne MacManuson December 4, 2000

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During World War II, the United States didn't ration their food as long or as desperately as the Brits and other Europeans had to. It's still interesting to see what the home front had to make do with.In "Eating for Victory", baking gets the political treatment as a point of women's rights and also as propaganda by the government and media to keep women in traditional roles. The skillful, well-dressed homemaker associated most often with 1950s TV moms like June Cleaver is really the Wartime Homemaker.As a reader, one's context of time needs re-adjustment. It used to be the Basic Seven, not the Four Food Groups. People didn't know eating habits could lead to heart disease, and dieting was not in the national mania for women.Perhaps the biggest time warp is understanding the uproar over African American women leaving domestic "Mammy" jobs in affluent homes for higher paying war work. Fathoming that old-world structure of educated women feeling "put-out" and oblivious or resentful of the cultural liberation going on -- it's a real step back in time and mores. (Imagine if Renée on the current TV show "Ally McBeal" were the live-in maid and not Ally's best-friend /roommate / fellow-lawyer.) Amy Bentley's style doesn't escape the scholarly soundbites and droning hum of dissertations. There's enough homey details, however, to make it tolerable. And clearly, Bentley's given her subject careful thought and personal investment. Not every woman was Rosie the Riveter or a Pin-up Girl, but every Rosie and Pin-up was a Wartime Homemaker to some degree. Bentley's book is one of the few to recognize this and to give it due credit.

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