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Women's & Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender, its function in cultures and societies, and its intersections with race and class.

Selected Websites

Digital Resources:

Apron Strings and Kitchen Sinks

DigiNole: Cookbooks and Herbals 70 e-book versions of herbals and cookbooks dating back to the seventeenth century.

Doris S. Kirschner Cookbook Collection (University of Minnesota) 5,600 items including cookbooks, pamphlets, and recipes ranging in date from 1890-present

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project Online collection of the most important 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks, viewable as page images.

Fire & Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America - "Meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes."

food-her-story: A History of Feminist Technological Foodways

HEARTH - Home Economics Archive is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines.

The Iowa Cookbook Collection Courtesy of Iowa State University's Special Collections Library

Lunch Hour NYC

Not by Bread Alone

Restaurants and Food Menus

Rhythm of Food - Analysis of Google searches on food over time.

Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi documents, studies, and explores the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.

What America Ate: Preserving America's Culinary History the Great Depression

Selected Books

University of Florida Home Page

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