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Eating for Victory : Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (98 Edition)

by Amy Bentley

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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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Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged 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.

Examining the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing, Eating for Victory decodes the dual message purveyed by the government and the media: while mandatory rationing was necessary to provide food for U.S. and Allied troops overseas, women on the home front were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Amy Bentley reveals the role of the Wartime Homemaker as a pivotal component not only of World War II but also of the development of the United States into a superpower.

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ISBN:
9780252067273
Subtitle:
Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity
Author:
Bentley, Amy
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Location:
Urbana :
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Military - World War II
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
U.S. Government
Subject:
Women's Studies - History
Subject:
Homemakers
Subject:
Rationing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subject:
Government - U.S. Government
Subject:
Women -- United States -- History.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States.
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Military-World War II General
Edition Description:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19981001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in

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"Synopsis" by , Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged 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.

Examining the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing, Eating for Victory decodes the dual message purveyed by the government and the media: while mandatory rationing was necessary to provide food for U.S. and Allied troops overseas, women on the home front were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Amy Bentley reveals the role of the Wartime Homemaker as a pivotal component not only of World War II but also of the development of the United States into a superpower.

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