Seasoned Socialism

edited by Anastasia Lakhtikova, Angela Brintlinger, Irina Glushchenko

The works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.

Foreword / Darra GoldsteinIntroduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela BrintlingerI. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia LakhtikovaII. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia LevkovitchIII. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia W¿drowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia GlaserAfterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. KoenkerIndex