A01=Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
American business
Author_Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
boardinghouse keepers
boardinghouses on underground railroad
caretaking
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cookbook writers
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Jim Crow travel guides
modern lunches
political voices
Southern food
travel
women's culture
women’s culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781469676395
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South; some also carried the institution to far-flung places like California, New York, and London. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners. Within their walls, boardinghouse residents and owners developed the region's earliest printed cookbooks, created space for making music and writing literary works, formed ad hoc communities of support, tested boundaries of race and sexuality, and more.
Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.
Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.
Elizabeth Engelhardt is Kenan Eminent Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
