Boardinghouse Women
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Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

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Boardinghouse Women

How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America

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In this innovative and insightful book, Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South; some also carried the institution to far-flung places like California, New York, and London. Owned and operated by Black, Jewish, Native American, and white women, rich and poor, immigrant and native-born, these lodgings were often hubs of business innovation and engines of financial independence for their owners. Within their walls, boardinghouse residents and owners developed the region's earliest printed cookbooks, created space for making music and writing literary works, formed ad hoc communities of support, tested boundaries of race and sexuality, and more. Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781469676418
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Halftitle Page
  8. INTRODUCTION LIKE NO OTHER BUSINESS IN THE WORLD
  9. CHAPTER 1 THE INVENTION OF SOUTHERN FOOD
  10. CHAPTER 2 BOARDINGHOUSE KEEPERS AS BUSINESS INNOVATORS
  11. CHAPTER 3 CARETAKING, NURTURING, AND NURSING
  12. CHAPTER 4 USING BOARDINGHOUSES FOR POLITICAL ENDS
  13. CHAPTER 5 SEX, DRINK, AND SEDUCTION
  14. CHAPTER 6 SAFE PASSAGE IN JIM CROW’S BOARDINGHOUSES
  15. CHAPTER 7 BOARDINGHOUSE ROOMS OF THEIR OWN
  16. CHAPTER 8 CREATING MODERN SOUTHERN LUNCHES
  17. CONCLUSION BOARDINGHOUSE FUTURES
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index