Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960

Publication Data

• Title Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960
• Author Rebecca Sharpless
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Chapel Hill
• Language English

Contents

I done decided I'd get me a cook job: becoming a cook
From collards to puff pastry: the food
Long hours and little pay: compensation and workers' resistance
Creating a homeplace: shelter, food, clothing, and a little fun
Mama leaps off the pancake box: cooks and their families
Gendering Jim Crow: relationships with employers
If I ever catch you in a white woman's kitchen, I'll kill you: expanding opportunities and the decline of domestic work.

Topics

• African American women household employees :: Southern States :: History
• Women cooks :: Southern States :: Social conditions
• African American women :: Southern States :: Social conditions
• Southern States :: Race relations :: History
• Southern States

Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 by Rebecca Sharpless. ISBN 9780807834329. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.