Document Type
Article
Abstract
Drawing on interview data regarding literacy practices done in tandem with housework, this article presents an array of recipe uses among retirement-age women. Given their backgrounds as professionals who came of age during second-wave feminism, the women see little value in “domestic” practices such as cooking literacies (Barton & Hamilton). However, the women’s uses of recipes for a variety of rhetorical purposes, in and out of the kitchen, are valuable material and social reflections of the women’s success in acquiring traditional literacies in school and at work.
Recommended Citation
White-Farnham, Jamie. “Rhetorical Recipes: Women’s Literacies In and Out of the Kitchen.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23–41, doi:10.25148/clj.6.2.009392.
