The works in Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life examine late Soviet everyday culture focused around the relationship between gender and food.

Foreword / Darra GoldsteinIntroduction: Food, Gender, and the Everyday through the Looking Glass of Socialist Experience / Anastasia Lakhtikova and Angela BrintlingerI. Women in the Soviet Kitchen: Cooking Paradoxes in Family and Society1. Love, Marry, Cook: Gendering the Home Kitchen in Late Soviet Russia / Adrianne K. Jacobs2. "I hate cooking!": Emancipation and Patriarchy in Late Soviet Film / Irina Glushchenko, Translated by Angela Brintlinger and Anastasia Lakhtikova3. Professional Women Cooking: Personal Soviet Cookbooks, Social Networks and Identity Building / Anastasia LakhtikovaII. Producers, Providers and Consumers: Resistance and Compliance, Soviet-Style4. Cake, Cabbage, and the Morality of Consumption in Iurii Trifonov's House on the Embankment / Benjamin Sutcliffe5. Sated People: Gendered Modes of Acquiring and Consuming Prestigious Soviet Foods / Olena Stiazhkina6. Dacha Labors: Preserving Everyday Soviet Life / Melissa L. Caldwell7. Vodka en plein air: Authoritative Discourse, Alcohol, and Gendered Spaces in "Gray Mouse" by Vil' Lipatov / Lidiia LevkovitchIII. Soviet Signifiers: The Semiotics of Everyday Scarcity and Ritual Uses of Food8. Cold Veal and a Stale Bread Roll: Zofia W¿drowska's Taste for Scarcity / Ksenia Gusarova9. "Our only hope was in these plants": Irina Ratushinskaya and the Manipulation of Foodways in a Late Soviet Labor Camp / Ona Renner-Fahey10: Shchi da kasha, but Mostly Shchi: Cabbage as Gendered and Genre'd in Late Soviet Prose / Angela Brintlinger11. Still Life with Leftover Cutlet: Nonna Slepakova's Poetics of Time / Amelia GlaserAfterword: Cultures of Food in the Era of Developed Socialism / Diane P. KoenkerIndex