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Chocolate, women and empire : A Social and Cultural History

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0719090059
ISBN-13 9780719090059
Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 31st, 2013
Print length 264 Pages
Weight 408 grams
Dimensions 15.70 x 23.30 x 1.40 cms
Ksh 3,700.00
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Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material. -- .

From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Chocolat, from romantic gift to guilty indulgence, chocolate has a special place in Western popular culture. But what are the hidden histories behind this luxurious commodity? This book examines chocolate production from cocoa bean to chocolate box, illuminating the dynamics of gender, race and empire which have structured the cocoa chain.

Using a varied range of sources, and drawing on the author''s own relationship to the industry, this book reconnects the people and places at different stages of chocolate production. Emma Robertson stresses the need to recognise the complex histories of empire and labour which have made such pleasurable consumption possible.

Chocolate, women and empire offers exciting new insights into the lives of women workers in a global industry. It will be invaluable to historians of British imperialism as well as to students of Women''s and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Business Studies.


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