Italian American Women, Food, and Identity Stories at the Table /

• Main Authors: Dottolo, Andrea L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dottolo, Carol (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Cultural studies.; Social groups.; Family.; Self and Identity.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Method
• 3. The Recipes
• 4. Authenticity and an Italian Imaginary
• 5. Slicing White Bre(a)d
• 6. Power
• 7. Love, Loss and Longing
• 8. Bodies- Italian and American Femininity
• 9. Conclusion.