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Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, 'The Sopranos', 'Witchblade', 'La Femme Nikita'. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. 'Action Chicks' is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in 2003? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in 'Action Chicks' provide fans with a new look at their favorite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.

Mass communications --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of culture --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Women in mass media.

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At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line-mostly female-flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows, movies, and even sex guides, food has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society.Kitchen Culture in America is a collection of essays that examine how women's roles have been shaped by the principles and practice of consuming and preparing food. Exploring popular representations of food and gender in American society from 1895 to 1970, these essays argue that kitchen culture accomplishes more than just passing down cooking skills and well-loved recipes from generation to generation. Kitchen culture instructs women about how to behave like "correctly" gendered beings. One chapter reveals how juvenile cookbooks, a popular genre for over a century, have taught boys and girls not only the basics of cooking, but also the fine distinctions between their expected roles as grown men and women. Several essays illuminate the ways in which food manufacturers have used gender imagery to define women first and foremost as consumers. Other essays, informed by current debates in the field of material culture, investigate how certain commodities like candy, which in the early twentieth century was advertised primarily as a feminine pleasure, have been culturally constructed. The book also takes a look at the complex relationships among food, gender, class, and race or ethnicity-as represented, for example, in the popular Southern black Mammy figure. In all of the essays, Kitchen Culture in America seeks to show how food serves as a marker of identity in American society.

Food habits --- Women --- Kitchens --- Sex role --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Femmes --- Rôle selon le sexe --- History --- Psychology. --- Attitudes --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Psychologie --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- Conditions sociales --- Relations raciales --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Housekeeping --- koken (voeding) --- History of civilization --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Psychology --- Social conditions --- Race relations --- Kitchens - Social aspects - United States. --- Attitudes. --- History. --- Sociology of culture --- Rooms --- Race question --- Anthropology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Folklore. --- Gender Studies. --- Linguistics. --- Women's Studies. --- United States of America

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Girls --- Social conditions. --- Identity --- International --- Féminité --- Social conditions

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Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake-because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food,

Food habits --- Food in popular culture --- Sex role --- Cooking, American. --- American cooking --- Cookery, American --- Popular culture --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- History. --- Sex differences --- United States --- United States of America --- Race --- Gender --- Gender roles --- Latinas --- Publicity --- Social class --- Food --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- Imaging

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Immigrant girls --- Girls --- Poverty --- Racism --- Book --- Experiences --- Asia --- Canada --- United States of America