Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
Introduction. "The Purpose of a Cookery Book"
Part I: "A Most Enchanting Occupation": Cookbooks in Early and Modern America, 1796?1941
Chapter 1. From Family Receipts to Fannie Farmer: Cookbooks in the United States, 1796?1920
Chapter 2. Recipes for a New Era: Food Trends, Consumerism, Cooks, and Cookbooks
Chapter 3. "Cooking Is Fun":Women's Home Cookery As Art, Science, and Necessity
Chapter 4. Ladylike Lunches and Manly Meals: The Gendering of Food and Cooking
Part II: "You are First and Foremost Homemakers:Cookbooks and the Second World War
Chapter 5. Lima Loaf and Butter Stretchers
Chapter 6."Ways and Means for War Days": The Cookbook-Scrapbook Compiled by Maude Reid
Chapter 7."The Hand That Cuts the Ration Coupon May Win the War": Women's Home-Cooked Patriotism
Part III:The Cooking Mystique: Cookbooks and Gender, 1945?1963
Chapter 8. The Betty Crocker Era
Chapter 9. "King of the Kitchen": Food and Cookery Instruction for Men
Chapter 10. The Most Important Meal: Women's Home Cooking, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks
Chapter 11. "A Necessary Bore": Contradictions in the Cooking Mystique
Conclusion. From Julia Child to Cooking.com
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index