Food production and gender across the early modern world / edited by Melissa Calaresu and Marta Manzanares Mileo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calaresu, Melissa, editor.

Manzanares Mileo, Marta, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Food culture, food history before 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food industry and trade--Social aspects.

Food industry and trade.

Food industry and trade--History.

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Women in agriculture--Social conditions.

Women in agriculture.

Women in agriculture--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2026]

System Details:

digital

Contents:

Introduction: Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern World Melissa Calaresu and Marta Manzanares MileoPart I: Representation and Meanings1. 'Cherchez la femme': Women's Dual Presence in Premodern Arab CuisineLimor Yungman2. Aztec Paste Makers and Breakers: Ritual Tools for Crafting Food-Art, Empowering Water and Killing Mountains in Early-Modern MexicoJoshua Fitzgerald3. The Culinary Devotion of Sor Marianita de San Još: Cooking, Writing and Spirituality in Eighteenth-Century MexicoDaniela Gutǐrrez Flores4. Vessels on a Vessel: Senauki, Water, and an Anti-Cattle Protest in Colonial GeorgiaRachel B. HerrmannPart II: Practice and Skills5. Cheesemaking, Knowledge and Authority: Reconstructing Work Practices of Women on Early Modern Dutch Dairy FarmsMaroesjka Verhagen and Danielle van den Heuvel6. 'Beating the Biscuit Batter like the Nuns Do': Gender, Labour and Skill in Early Modern Spanish ConventsMarta Manzanares Mileo7. More than Kitchenware: Colonial Foodways, Culinary Change and CHamoru Women in the Eighteenth-Century Mariana IslandsVer̤nica Pęa Filiu8. From Fields to Fritters: Trajectories of Food Production and Processing in eighteenth-century NaplesMelissa CalaresuIndex.

Notes:

"Taylor & Francis".

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781003695820

1003695825

9781040842454

1040842453

Publisher Number:

90104575778

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