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Eating right in America : the cultural politics of food & health / Charlotte Biltekoff.
Author
Biltekoff, Charlotte, 1970-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Description
208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Available Online
e-Duke Books Gender Studies Collection 2016
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Firestone Library - Stacks
TX360.U6 B548 2013
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Subject(s)
Nutrition
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United States
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Diet
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United States
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Food habits
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United States
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Diet in disease
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Food habits
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Manners and customs
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Politics, Practical
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Summary note
This work is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Here the author analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their messages to the public. She shows that while the primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to "eat right" in the U.S. inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class. Without discounting the pleasures of food or the value of wellness, the author advocates a critical reappraisal of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. Based on her understanding of the history of dietary reform, she argues that talk about "eating right" in America too often obscures structural and environmental stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative -- From publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The cultural politics of dietary health
Scientific moralization and the beginning of modern dietary reform
Anxiety and aspiration on the nutrition front
From microscopes to "macroscopes"
Thinness as health, self-control, and citizenship
Connecting the dots : dietary reform past, present, and future.
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Cultural politics of food and health
ISBN
9780822355441 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0822355442 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780822355595 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0822355590 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2013013823
OCLC
821217792
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