Name: Book Talk + Q/A avec Alex D. Ketchum
Start: 2024-06-28T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Saint-Suave Librairie-Café

$Book Talk + Q\/A avec Alex D. Ketchum$

Nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Alex D. Ketchum (she/her) pour un book talk et une session de questions (Q/A) à propos de son livre ''Ingredients for Revolution - A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses''. La partie book talk sera en anglais, la partie questions sera en anglais et en français.

Activité gratuite!

Portes 18h30
Début de l'événement 19h

À propos d'Alex D. Ketchum:
Alex D. Ketchum (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at McGill University's Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF), the Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab, and the author of Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses. She is also the author of the book Engage in Public Scholarship! A Guide to Feminist and Accessible Communication (Concordia University Press, 2022) and the zines How to Start a Feminist Restaurant (Microcosm Press 2018) and How to Organize Inclusive Events (Microcosm Press 2020). Learn more about her work and writing at alexketchum.ca.

À propos du livre:
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, ''Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses'' is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present. As key sites of cultural and political significance, this volume shows the essential role these institutions served for multiple social justice movements including women’s liberation, LGBTQ equality, and food justice, as well as for training women workers and entrepreneurs.
This systematic study outlines the crucial steps it took to establish these businesses during eras when sexism was so institutionalized it was difficult for unmarried women to obtain a bank loan, while also showing the continuities and influences of past businesses on contemporary places. Through an examination of important establishments across America, Alex D. Ketchum first examines the foundational principles behind these businesses, noting key differences between cooperative, for-profit, and non-profit models. She then looks to issues of financing, labour, pay, food sourcing, and cultural programming to understand how these organizations reconciled feminist beliefs with capitalism and how they strove for more equitable and sustainable business practices.
Brimming with illuminating archival research, interviews with influential restaurateurs, and illustrated with photographs, menus, posters, and calendars, Ingredients for Revolution is a fundamental work of women’s history, food history, and cultural history.