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Boardinghouse Women
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
其他書名
How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America
出版UNC Press Books, 2023-11-14
主題Cooking / HistorySocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / General
ISBN9798890864222
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jTPhEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South; some also carried the institution to far-flung places like California, New York, and London. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners. Within their walls, boardinghouse residents and owners developed the region’s earliest printed cookbooks, created space for making music and writing literary works, formed ad hoc communities of support, tested boundaries of race and sexuality, and more.

Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women’s stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.