{"product_id":"contradictory-cookbooks-ellen-barth-9780820380568","title":"Contradictory Cookbooks: Print, Protest, and Feminism in Women's Community Cookbooks","description":"\u003ci\u003eContradictory Cookbooks \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a historical exploration of how women merged their voluntary, professional, and political interests through DIY cookbook publishing. Although cookbooks are often associated with the domestic and traditional, Barth reveals that the production of community cookbooks in the second half of the twentieth century was increasingly taken up by working women, women involved in student and civil rights movements, and women fighting for the cause of second-wave feminism. Barth reveals why, at a time that perhaps seems surprising and unlikely, women from a broad range of backgrounds and interest groups produced these culinary texts. Drawing on hundreds of American community cookbooks as well as archival research from American women's organizations, \u003ci\u003eContradictory Cookbooks \u003c\/i\u003eargues that through the production and sale of fundraising cookbooks, women found a means to bridge sometimes contradictory aspects of their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen Barth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820380563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820380568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ellen Barth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001189114111,"sku":"9780820380568","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contradictory-cookbooks-ellen-barth-9780820380568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}