Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern World by M... - 9789048559411

Food Production and Gender across the Early Modern WorldAuthor(s): Melissa Calaresu, Marta Manzanares Mileo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pallas Publications, Netherlands\nImprint: Pallas Publications\nISBN-13: 9789048559411, 978-9048559411\nSynopsis\nThis collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800. \n\nRanging from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean Basin and from the Pacific to the Atlantic worlds, the volume opens up new directions in research on various activities that have received little attention, such as preserving, grinding, curing, and frying. These studies uncover historical actors engaged in the processing of different foodstuffs, whose embodied knowledge and work are often obscured in the historical record, and rendered even less accessible when performed by women. \n\nBy interpreting genre paintings, revisiting well?known documents, and en.