Genere e cibo. Pratiche quotidiane e scrittura delle donne

With the aim to add to the extensive research that has emerged around food in the last decades by adopting a specific gender perspective, this special issue of "Genesis" focuses on cooking as well as on the huge amount of writings and discourses devoted to everyday food preparation and consumption by women, from early modern to contemporary times. With a range of different sources, from early modern account books to 20th-and 21st-centuries cookbooks of women gastronomes, the articles of the issue explore in particular the controversial role of cooking and food writing as a tool of women's agency, both in family life and the public arena