Can I read Chocolate, Women and Empire : a Social and Cultural History on EtoBox?

Chocolate, Women and Empire : a Social and Cultural History by Emma Robertson, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chocolate, Women and Empire : a Social and Cultural History about?

Chocolate remains a mythic product, a symbol both of luxury and of a fantasy world of exoticism, yet also (for many) a workaday requirement providing energy and nutrition. This book concentrates on three key stages of chocolate production in the British empire: growing cocoa beans, manufacturing chocolate from these beans, and the marketing of chocolate products. It begins with the romantic construction of chocolate, redresses the gender imbalance of many existing Rowntree histories and values women's own interpretations of their working lives. The analysis of advertising establishes connections and tensions between the worlds of production and consumption, with an attention to gender and class, and to cultural characteristics. The book tackles imperial histories of chocolate and how British firms, including Rowntree, constructed their own romantic narratives of the 'discovery' and development of chocolate production. It focuses on Nigerian women farmers who have always been active agents in cocoa production, despite having to struggle against the often intersecting structures and ideologies of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy. The book explores the ways in which Rowntree cre

Who reads Chocolate, Women and Empire : a Social and Cultural History?

Author

Emma Robertson, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526118622

Category

nonfiction