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Eating for victory, food rationing and the politics of domesticity, Amy Bentley

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Eating for victory

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Amy Bentley

food rationing and the politics of domesticity

Mandatory food rationing during World War II significantly challenged the image of the United States as a land of plenty and collapsed the boundaries between women's public and private lives by declaring home production and consumption to be political activities. Examining the food-related propaganda surrounding rationing, Eating For Victory decodes the dual message purveyed by the government and the media: while mandatory rationing was necessary to provide food for U.S. and Allied troops overseas, women on the home front were also "required" to provide their families with nutritious food. Amy Bentley reveals the role of the wartime homemaker as a pivotal component not only of World War II but also of the development of the United States into a superpower

Rationing is good democracy -- Woman as wartime homemaker : family, food, and national security -- Islands of serenity : gender, race, and ordered meals -- Meat and sugar : consumption, rationing, and wartime food deprivation -- Victory gardening and canning : men, women, and home front family food production -- Freedom from want : abundance and sacrifice in U.S. postwar famine relief