Sponsor
Portland State University. Department of History
First Advisor
Gordon B. Dodds
Term of Graduation
Fall 1991
Date of Publication
10-28-1991
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.) in History
Department
History
Language
English
Subjects
Food -- History, Diet -- Oregon -- History, Women -- Oregon -- Social conditions
DOI
10.15760/etd.6079
Physical Description
1 online resource (2, 114 pages)
Abstract
Food and Females, The Taming of the Oregon Palate? is a study of the variations in the preparation and consumption of food as reflected in the changes in the roles of women during the hundred years between the settlement of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver and 1920, which marks the beginning of modern times.
Most of the data obtained for this topic was in the form of personal testimonies or culinary records, which came from nineteenth and early twentieth century diaries, journals, letters, and cookbooks. Some secondary sources were used, as well, primarily in the research on Fort Vancouver and on women's roles on the frontier.
Though, in modern times, women's roles moved away from the nineteenth century ideology of the cult of domesticity and toward a status of greater independence, the manner of preparing and eating food did not necessarily become more refined. The height of Oregon's culinary resplendence occurred at the time that the trans-continental railway reached Portland in 1883. This was a time when the "doctrine of the spheres" reigned supreme. As women played out their roles of moral teachers and domestic rulers within their separate spheres, food was at its best. Modern times didn't cultivate the Oregon palate, nor did it tame women.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/24257
Recommended Citation
Lutz, Peggy Ann, "Food and Females: The Taming of the Oregon Palate?" (1991). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4196.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6079
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