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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anastasia Lakhtikova , Angela Brintlinger , Irina GlushchenkoPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253040961ISBN 10: 0253040965 Pages: 390 Publication Date: 04 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Foreword / Darra Goldstein Introduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela Brintlinger I. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society 1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs 2. ""I hate cooking!"": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova 3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia Lakhtikova II. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style 4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe 5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina 6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell 7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in ""Gray Mouse"" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia Levkovitch III. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food 8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia Wędrowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova 9. ""Our only hope was in these plants"": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey 10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger 11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia Glaser Afterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. Koenker Index"ReviewsSeasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history.... This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times * The volume makes a significant and long-awaited interdisciplinary contribution to the areas of consumption, material culture, gender, film,and poetry studies. It is a well-written and well-organized collection of approaches to understandingthe nuances of Soviet food and gender relations, as well as food cultures under socialism; it is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in these areas of study. Each scholar contributes to the general topic suggested by the editors by adding to the overall picture their own research focus and lens, which makes the volume a rich collection of thoughts about the diversity of food cultures and modes of gender relations in late Soviet society. * H-Socialisms * Overall, Indiana University Press has published an attractive, well-edited volume. . . . Recommended. * Choice * Seasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history. . . . This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times * The volume makes a significant and long-awaited interdisciplinary contribution to the areas of consumption, material culture, gender, film,and poetry studies. It is a well-written and well-organized collection of approaches to understandingthe nuances of Soviet food and gender relations, as well as food cultures under socialism; it is, therefore, highly recommended to anyone interested in these areas of study. Each scholar contributes to the general topic suggested by the editors by adding to the overall picture their own research focus and lens, which makes the volume a rich collection of thoughts about the diversity of food cultures and modes of gender relations in late Soviet society. * H-Socialisms * Overall, Indiana University Press has published an attractive, well-edited volume. . . . Recommended. * Choice * Seasoned Socialism manages to pull off the difficult trick of being at once a serious academic exploration of food's role in history as well as a highly readable social history. . . . This book, celebrating the indomitable spirit of Russian hospitality and its essential ingredients, is a must-read for all serious students of Late Soviet history, culinary historians, and anyone interested in a compelling examination of the relationship between food and history. * The Moscow Times * As an important synthesis of oral history, literature, and film studies, Seasoned Socialism will undoubtfully be very useful for teaching courses focusing on Soviet culture and society in late socialist years and beyond. * The Russian Review * Author InformationAnastasia Lakhtikova received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Angela Brintlinger is Professor of Slavic Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University and author of Writing a Usable Past: Russian Literary Culture (1917–1937) and Chapaev and His Comrades: War and the Russian Literary Hero across the Twentieth Century. Irina Glushchenko teaches in the School of Cultural Studies of the Division of Humanities at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She is author of Food and Drinks: Mikoyan and Soviet Cuisine and editor of Time, Forward! Cultural Politics in the USSR and (with Boris Kagarlitsky and Vitaly Kurennoy) of USSR: Life after Death. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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