Join the Cedar Rapids Public Library for the Speakers Bureau presentation “Promoting Peace, Subverting Domesticity: Cookbooks Against War, 1970-2010.

This historical project analyzes peace activist cookbooks, revealing how such texts ignite activism, enable community identity for subcultures and adeptly subvert women’s domestic roles. The discussion this research features further extends our understandings of cookbooks and other “feminine” genres to connect with 21st-century trends in “new domesticity” and radical home economics that position the kitchen as the place where gender and politics ferment.