'Our Sisters' Recipes': exploring "community" in a community cookbook

Article Abstract:

The cookbook 'Our Sisters' Recipes' was examined as a literary work and as a representation of feminist culture and tradition. The analysis focused on demonstrating that community cookbooks can also mirror societal conditions from where they originated. The different elements of the book showed that the middle class Jewish women who wrote it were preoccupied with fortifying their economic and social achievements and building their community. The authors were also ascribing for themselves the right to hold on to certain aspects of their value system.

Cooking, Cookery, Women writers, Women authors, Women, Jewish, Jewish women, Our Sisters' Recipes (Book)

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Mister Sparkle meets the Yakuza: Depictions of Japan in The Simpsons

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The Simpsons is widely considered to be one of the most popular, witty, and urbane animated cartoons of recent years and to accuse The Simpsons of racism or bad taste is to misunderstand the very nature of the show and the comedy it uses. Through its use of hyper-irony and the cult of knowingness, The Simpsons hammers home Lawson and Martheson's point that there is no arena of certainty, moral agenda or ultimate truth.

United States, Evaluation, Racism in mass media, Cartoon television programs, Animated television programs, The Simpsons (Television program)

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Mister Ed was a sexist pig

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The TV comedy 'Mr. Ed' was a very popular program during the 1960s which focused on friends Wilbur Post, the architect, and his talking horse, Mister Ed. A survey indicated that girls were drawn by the show's strong sexist message. Females related to the male character more since women were uncomfortably portrayed in the program. The show is credited for building a strong childhood influence on feminism.

Influence, Television comedies

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