Cooking from the Farmers' Market by Georgeanne Brennan

Cooking from the Farmers' Market by Georgeanne Brennan

Mary Ritter Beard can be considered the founding mother of the field of American women's history. A visionary thinker, Beard devoted her life to reconstructing a history that had remained largely undocumented and unacknowledged before she began her groundbreaking work. She held a firm conviction that women had a far greater impact on history than male historians had ever recognized, and that a knowledge of their own history would enable women to realize their full potential as active members of society and agents of social change.

Today, Mary Ritter Beard is best remembered for her collaborative work with her husband, the historian Charles Beard, on such volumes as The Making of American Civilization. Her own pioneering work is, like the women's history she championed, under appreciated, despite the fact that it influences the work of such well-known contemporary historians as Gerda Lerner, laid fundamental groundwork for the entire field of women's studies, and has much to add to contemporary feminist debates regarding equality and difference, agency and victimization, and the conflicts between middle-class and working-class women.

Ann J. Lane's essential--and accessible--selection includes full headnotes, a 70-page critical and biographical essay, and a new preface that assesses Beard's legacy and the continuing relevance of her work. Making Women's History restores Beard to her well-deserved place at the core of early-twentieth-century feminist history and thought.

Georgeanne Brennan is a well-known culinary writer who also runs a vacation cooking school in Haute Provence, France. Among her many cookbooks are the award-winning Food & Flavors of Haute Provence and Aperitif, as well as the Williams-Sonoma Savoring Series' Savoring France. She and her spouse have a little farm in Northern California where they live. They are the parents of four children.

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ISBN 13	9780737020137
ISBN 10	073702013X
Title	Cooking from the Farmers' Market
Author	Georgeanne Brennan
Series	Williams-Sonoma Lifestyles
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Time Life Medical
Year published	1999-04-01
Number of pages	112
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