Food Will Win the War

The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada's Home Front

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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During WWII, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, nutritionists warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished women and children to "Eat Right, Feel Right" because "Canada Needs You Strong" while cookbooks helped housewives become "housoldiers" through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production.Food Will Win the War explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent during the war and the profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in the 1940s. Through official food guides and policies, the state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, transforming the way women cooked, what their families ate, and how people thought about food. Canadians, in turn, rallied around food and nutrition to articulate new visions of citizenship for their postwar future.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-31
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774827621
UtmärkelserJoint winner of Political History Group Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)

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Introduction1 "Eat Right, Feel Right – Canada Needs You Strong": Food Rules and the Transformation of Canada's Wartime Nutritional State2 The Kitchen and the State: Food Rationing, Price Control, and the Gender Politics of Consumption3 Mobilizing Canada's "Housoldiers" and "Kitchen Commandos" for War: Food, Volunteers, and the Making of Canada's Home Front4 Tealess Teas, Meatless Days, and Recipes for Victory: Transforming Food Culture and Culinary Practice in Wartime5 The Politics of Malnutrition: Nutrition Experts and the Making of Canada's Postwar Welfare StateConclusionNotesIndex

Both books [Mosby's Food Will Win the War as well as well as A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front by Graham Broad, UBC Press 2013] are much needed additions to the historiography of Canada's Second World War Experience. Too often have the daily lives of those on the home front been overlooked in favour of the stories of the men and women who marched away in khaki. Those who remained behind – 90 percent of Canadians – also had their worlds fundamentally transformed by war, as these books demonstrate. Specialists will certainly appreciate these works, but both are accessible and appealing to a general audience as well.- Stacey J. Barker (BC Studies)