Italian American Women, Food, and Identity

Chapter 1 “You Were Right Down the Street”: Place and Space

Chapter 2 “Even a Medigan Could Do It”: Racial Identities and Whiteness

Chapter 3 Gendered Identities: Love and Labor

Chapter 4 “She Was Always on a Diet”: Bodies and Shame

Chapter 5 “I Remember You Most in the Kitchen”: Nostalgia—Love, Loss, and Longing

Chapter 6 “But My Mother Ruled the Table”: Food and Power

Chapter 7 Method: How to Survive Writing a Book with Your Mother/Daughter