About the Exhibit

Dr. Nicole Tarulevicz from the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania spoke on January 12, 2015 at an opening reception for the online exhibit. A recording of her lecture can be accessed here.

Anderson, Erin, Molded Magic: Advertising the “Joys of Jell-O” to the Modern American Housewife, 1920-1945. University of Wyoming, MA thesis (2014).

Belluscio, Lynne. The JELL-O Reader. Le Roy, N.Y.: Le Roy Pennysaver, 1998.

Bria, Rosemarie Dorothy. How Jell-O Molds Society and How Society Molds Jell-O: A Case Study of an American Food Industry Creation. Teachers College, Columbia University (1991)

Cross, Gary S., and Robert Proctor. Packaged Pleasures: How Technology & Marketing Revolutionized Desire. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago, 2014.

Forstie, Clare. “From Rosy to Regrettable: Mixed Nostalgia and the Meanings of Jell-O Salad,” Digest: a Journal of Foodways and Culture (2012).

Hoganson, Kristin L. Consumers' Imperium : The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. University of North Carolina Press (2007)

Inness, Sherrie A. Dinner Roles : American Women and Culinary Culture. University of Iowa Press (2001).

Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America, 1994.

Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of a New American Culture, 1993.

LeBresco, Kathleen, “There is Always Room for Resistance: Jell-O Gender and Social Class,” in Sherrie A. Inness (ed.) Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food. Rowman and Littlefield (2001).

Longone, Jan. "'As Worthless as Savorless Salt'?: Teaching Children to Cook, Clean, and (Often) Conform". Gastronomica. Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 104-110.

Nelson, Diane Jesse: Jell-O advertising in Ladies' Home Journal, 1902-1929. 1989. Iowa State University, MS thesis (1989)

Newton, Sarah. E. "'The Jell-O Syndrome': Investigating Popular Culture/Foodways". Western Folklore, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1992), pp. 249-267.

Schreiber, Ron. Jell-O Advertising Recipe Booklets & Folders. 2009
http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/sliker/msuspcsbs_jell_geneseepur132/msuspcsbs_jell_geneseepur132.pdf

Shapiro, Laura. Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986

Wall, Wendy. "Shakespearean Jell-O: Mortality and Malleability in the Kitchen". Gastronomica, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 41-50.

Woloson, Wendy A. Refined Tastes : Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America. Johns Hopkins University Press (2002).

Wyman, Carolyn. Jell-O: A Biography: The History and Mystery of America's Most Famous Dessert. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001.

Further Viewing

MSU Silker Collection: Jell-O
http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/brandpieces.jsp?key=525

Gallery of Regrettable Food: Jell-O, the Thing for Which There is Always Room.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/jello/index.html

Duke University Libraries: Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920  http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/

The University of Michigan Library has placed copies of these works online for educational and research purposes. These works may be under copyright. If you decide to use any of these works, you are responsible for making your own legal assessment and securing any necessary permission. If you have questions about this exhibit, please contact Juli McLoone, jmcloone@umich.edu. If you have concerns about the inclusion of an item in this exhibit, please contact ask-omeka@umich.edu.