Acknowledgments
Introduction
Food Discourse and Francoist Spain: The State of the Scholarship
Franco and Fascism
Francoist Discourse and Control
Francoist Biopolitics and Food
Food Discourse and Resistance
Censorship in Franco’s Spain: Resistance, Oversight, and Food Texts
Overview of This Book: Autarky, Gender, and Centralist Nationalism
1. Food Discourse and the Production of Autarkic Subjectivities
Eat More Oranges
A Taste for Rice
An Appetite for Culinary Patriotism
Food Shortages and Culinary Abundance
No Place at the Table for Hunger
Pro-official Cookbooks in Times of Hunger
Providing an Account of Hunger in Cookbooks
Francoist Food Discourse: Autarky, Hunger, and Culinary Patriotism
2. Beyond the Kitchen: Food Texts, Gender, and Compliance in Franco Spain
Writing Women Back Into the Kitchen
Constructing Subservient Subjectivities through Cookbooks
Cookery Instruction and the Authority of the Sección Femenina
The Authority of Modernity
Ana María Herrera and Manual de cocina: The Invisible Author
Sección Femenina Cookery Manuals and the Professional Domestic
The Gendering of Gastronomy: Sección Femenina and La Marquesa de Parabere
Breaking the Mould: Non-official Cookbooks
Mi recetario de cocina: Sarrau’s Authorial Persona Emerges
La futura ama de casa: Constructing a Modern Spanish Womanhood
A Broader Narrative of Franco-Era Cookbooks: Obedience and Resistance
3. A Recipe for Spain: The Production of a Unified Gastronomic
Space and the Gendering of Gastronomy
Establishing the Borders of Spanish Food Culture
The Gendering of Gastronomy and Food Discourse
The Production of a Unified Gastronomic Space
The Male Gastronome and National Unity: Erasing Regional Difference
Guía gastronómica de España: The Eradication of Regional Diversity and the Exclusion of Women
Cookbooks and Regional Ingredients in the National Recipe
Isabel de Trévis and the Authority of Male Gastronomes
Doménech’s Food Discourse and Nationalism
Regional Cuisines: Minimized and Co-opted
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
