Feeding Change: Revisiting Intersections of Food, Health, Labor, and Education in 20th-Century America

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 28
Coordinating Council for Women in History 29
Sunday, January 11, 2026: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Kimball Room (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Shayne Leslie Figueroa, New York University
Papers:
Toast Water and Beef Tea: Women’s Ways of Wellness in 20th-Century American Cookbooks
Megan J. Elias, Boston University
Doing Just Fine in Lunchlady Land: The Labor of New York City’s Postwar School Cafeterias
Shayne Leslie Figueroa, New York University
Promoting Norms of Femininity and Able-Bodied Domesticity Through Cooking Instruction for Blind Girls, 1893–1926
Katherine Magruder, Phillips Exeter Academy
Less Work for Mother: Labor, Lunches, and the Automat in Popular Culture
Adam Shprintzen, Marywood University
Comment:
Megan J. Elias, Boston University
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