Co-opting domesticity: apartheid, South African Jewish women, and community cookbooks

被引:2
作者
Beinart-Smollan, Gavin [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU, Skirball Dept Hebrew & Juda Studies, New York, NY 10012 USA
关键词
Community cookbooks; postwar; South Africa; apartheid; Jewish; Judaism; women;
D O I
10.1080/15528014.2023.2196200
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
At the onset of the apartheid era, Jewish women across South Africa began to publish community cookbooks to raise money for Jewish schools, synagogues, and other organizations. Through their combination of recipes, titles, advertisements, prefaces, and guidelines, community cookbooks narrated the economic, social, and cultural successes of the women who compiled them. In the postwar period, South African Jewish women sought a place for themselves in Jewish communal life, and in the white middle class of the country's new apartheid order. By producing and consuming community cookbooks, these women armed themselves with the organizational platform and the cultural capital that would help them claim that place. In order to be able to step into the public sphere while meeting their domestic obligations, they came to rely on the invisibilized labor of the black women who worked in their homes and kitchens. The paper uses cookbooks to think critically about the position of South African Jews in the apartheid system, analyzing how Jewish women benefited from the privileges of whiteness in the intimate arena of their homes.
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页码:1056 / 1072
页数:17
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