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OverviewFeeding Fascism explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labour. The book looks at women’s experiences of Fascism by examining the material world in which they lived in relation to their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over the past decade, Diana Garvin has conducted extensive research in Italian museums, libraries, and archives. Feeding Fascism includes illustrations of rare cookbooks, kitchen utensils, cafeteria plans, and culinary propaganda to connect women’s political beliefs with the places that they lived and worked and the objects that they owned and borrowed. Garvin draws on first-hand accounts, such as diaries, work songs, and drawings, that demonstrate how women and the Fascist state vied for control over national diet across many manifestations – cooking, feeding, and eating – to assert and negotiate their authority. Revealing the national stakes of daily choices, and the fine line between resistance and consent, Feeding Fascism attests to the power of food. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana GarvinPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781487551575ISBN 10: 1487551576 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 19 December 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Tabletop Politics 1. Towards an Autarkic Italy 2. Agricultural Labour and the Fight for Taste 3. Raising Children on the Factory Line 4. Recipes for Exceptional Times 5. Model Fascist Kitchens Conclusion: From Feeding Fascism to Eating Mussolini A Note to Future Researchers Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA fascinating journey into the world of food during the Fascist era that challenges widespread stereotypes and sheds light on women's unexpected socially and politically important role, both as producers and as consumers. Thanks to archival documents, publications, oral accounts, and elements of visual and material culture, Diana Garvin's book stands out as a reference point in gender studies and food studies. - Emanuela Scarpellini, Professor of Modern History, University of Milan Using case studies ranging from the songs of women labouring in the rice paddies to the design of the model Fascist kitchen, Diana Garvin cleverly elucidates how Fascism was woven into the fabric of Italian women's daily lives. - Lizzie Collingham, Author of The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food "Garvin’s book is a fascinating look at how dinner tables, café menus, cookbooks, and kitchen utensils can help us understand the intersection of politics and daily life. In this case, Garvin takes readers on a journey through women’s experiences of Fascism under Benito Mussolini’s regime by exploring their cooking, agricultural labor, and industrial food production in Italy from 1922 through 1945."" -- Annie Sciacca * <em>Civil Eats</em> * ""Feeding Fascism is a fascinating journey through the food, kitchens, and work of women in an era of intense political ideology and citizen stewardship, where nutrition and food science, design and modernity were all used to facilitate that stewardship."" * <em>Nature Food </em> * ""Feeding Fascism contributes much to our understanding of women’s lives under Mussolini’s dictatorship and is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship that challenges the consent-resistance dichotomy that long dominated studies of interwar Italy. Fascists rarely missed an opportunity to celebrate what they were doing or to explain to people how they wanted them to act and feel. By subjecting the kitchen cabinets, factory cafeterias, ration cards, and recipe collections of the period to scrutiny, Garvin has brought the experiences of at least some Italian women into the frame."" -- Anne Wingenter, Loyola University * <em>LARB</em> * ""Feeding Fascism looks past the gilded hearths of Fascist leaders, and transports us instead to rice paddies, factories and working-class kitchens. This important intervention in Fascism scholarship examines cooking, foraging, and labour in fields and factories to understand ‘what happened between rebellion and consent’ throughout the ventennio."" -- Amy King * <em>Modern Italy</em> * ""Feeding Fascism is for a general audience, and Garvin succeeds in making the material accessible – no dry prose or unfamiliar academic jargon here. By using the less-explored lens of women’s food work, she sheds light on a moment in history that threated to profoundly changed Italian culinary traditions."" -- Prathap Nair * <em>The Parliament</em> * ""Feeding Fascism is an excellent contribution to the scholarship on Italian women, labour, food production and policy, industrialization, and architecture."" -- Megan Kirby, York University * <em>Histoire sociale / Social History</em> *" Author InformationDiana Garvin is an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Oregon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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