White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

good jobs making processed foods that many would disdainfully label “bad food” have been replaced by low-paid work serving eaters of “good food.”

Femivores, she observed, were “highly educated women who left the workforce to care for kith and kin,” and then carved out a space of meaning and agency in the home by devoting themselves to politically conscious food provision.