Description: Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity.
Review Quotes: Walden advances the scholarship on cookbooks and housekeeping advice manuals by examining them through the lens of 'taste' and rhetorical theory. She demonstrates how such texts functioned in contradictory and complex ways, revealing in new ways the truly intersectional nature of domestic ideology--how prescriptive norms around home, gender, race, class, nation, and ethnicity work together and through each other.-- "Jessamyn Neuhaus, SUNY Plattsburgh"