| Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture Who cooks dinner in American homes? It's no surprise that "Mom" remains the overwhelming answer. Cooking and all it entails, from grocery shopping to chopping vegetables to clearing the table, is to this day primarily a woman's responsibility. How this relationship between women and food developed through the twentieth century and why it has endured are the questions Sherrie Inness seeks to answer in Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture. Sherrie Inness is associate professor of English at Miami University. She is the author or editor of eleven books, including the forthcoming Kitchen Culture in America and Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing (Iowa, 1997). |