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SUMMARY:By the Book: Boardinghouse Women with Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with the UNC Chapel Hill Kenan Eminent Professor of Southern Studies and author of A Mess of Greens and Republic of Barbecue. Engelhardt’s new book Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers\, Cooks\, Nurses\, Widows\, and Runaways Shaped Modern America explores how southern boardinghouse keepers changed modern American food and much more.  \nSigning to follow with copies for sale from Scuppernong Books. This free program is part of Greensboro Public Library’s One City\, One Book.  \nMore about Boardinghouse Women \n“Elizabeth Engelhardt vividly establishes how southern boardinghouses were crucibles and the women who kept them were agents of improvisation\, ingenuity\, grit\, and grits. Her trenchant research and reframing allow us to see these ventures\, so often born from a moment of acute personal loss and economic necessity\, as the loci not only of tragedy and exigency but also of bodily autonomy\, self-expression\, financial stability\, and even freedom.”\n—Monique Truong\, author of The Book of Salt \nIn 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. \nWithin 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.
URL:https://greensborohistory.org/event/by-the-book-boardinghouse-women/
LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Ave.\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:At the Museum,By the Book,Public Programs
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