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Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis. While at U.C. Davis she directed the Women and Gender Studies program and the Consortium for Women and Research.

Her food memoir, TASTING HOME, received the following critical acclaim:

Starred Review (outstanding in its genre)in Publisher's Weekly Select.

First prize, autobiography, in the London Book Festival.

Silver,Women's Studies, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

Bronze,memoir,Independent Publishers's Awards.

Finalist, autobiography, from Reader's Favorite.

Honorable mentions in the Hollywood and Southern California Book Festivals.

Finalist, autobiography, Reader’s Favorite.

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	Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen 3.49 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Our Lives - Summer: Award-Winning Stories from WomensMemoirs.com by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather A.A. Menzies (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and Class in Women's History (HISTORY WORKSHOP SERIES) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1983 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women, Power, and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Belly Shame: Stories From the Gut by Debra Deangelo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelvin Wade (Editor), Tracy Yokas (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Panthers to Promise Keepers: Rethinking the Men's Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture by Judith Newton (Goodreads Author), Deborah Rosenfelt (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[Starting Over: Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender)] [Author: Judith L. Newton] [July, 1994] by Judith Newton (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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OINK: A FOOD FOR THOUGHT MYSTERY Coming April 2017 with She Writes Press

Emily Addams is the last person you’d expect police to be circling in a poisoning investigation. A professor of women’s studies, a foodie, and a doting mom, Emily has spent her life building a campus community and engaging in peaceful struggles against injustice. But when Peter Elliott, a Professor of Plant Biology at her bucolic Arbor State, is found comatose in a pig pen clutching a piece of Emi

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“awkwardness and shame. Still, I turned to food”
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“Preparing vegetables, I had discovered, was an exacting art, almost as rigorous as closely reading Shakespeare, but the latter was a solitary occupation, while cooking could be shared.”
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