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Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture

Sherrie A. Inness

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.

Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table

S. Inness

From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in ''white trash'' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over ...

Intimate Communities: Representation and Social ...

Sherrie A. Inness

This work examines the many popular representations of student life at women''s colleges produced in the United States during the Progressive Era.

The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the ...

Sherrie A. Inness

For example, Louise Sloan's "Do Ask, Do Tell" presents a clear, well- supported analysis of the different approaches lesbians adopt to being out at the workplace. The article even has two different sections about ways to work on coming-out ...

Tough girls: women warriors and wonder women in popular culture

Sherrie A. Inness

Whether it is Ripley battling a swarm of monsters in the Aliens trilogy or Captain Janeway piloting the starship Voyager through space in the continuing Star Trek saga, women strong in both body and mind have become increasingly popular in ...

Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls'' Series

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5 Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and Woodcraft Girls: The Ideology of Girls'' Scouting Novels, 1910-1935 Sherrie A. Inness In his article "The Boy Scout Handbook," Paul Fussell argues that scholars are not paying adequate attention to many literary works that do not qualify as masterpieces. "It''s amazing how many interesting books humanistic criticism manages not to notice," he comments. "Staring fixedly at its handful of teachable masterpieces, it seems content not to recognize that a ...

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

S. Inness

Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine.

The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness: How to Express ...

Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek

The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness does not require that readers ignore the needs of others and focus solely on their own desires.

Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its ...

Benjamin Piekut

... Bernard Gendron, Bill Girard, Monica Hairston, Fred Ho, Branden Joseph, Liz Kotz, Tracy McMullen, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Barry Shank, and Ben Young. I am particularly indebted to Ellie Hisama, Sherrie Tucker, and Jason Stanyek, ...

Marilyn Monroe Returns: The Healing of a Soul

Adrian Finkelstein

Marilyn Monroe Returns tells the remarkable story of Sherrie Lea Laird, a young Canadian singer whose life has an astonishing twist: she seems to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Develop Your Medical Intuition: Activate Your Natural Wisdom ...

Sherrie Dillard

This book provides everything you need to know to repair, remedy, and enhance your health, including: Quizzes to determine your medical intuitive type and assess your energy health Four main medical intuitive types: mental, emotional, ...