Screen LibraryEating right in America : the cultural politics of food and health /
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...
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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 th |
| Carrier Form: | 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-198) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780822355595 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 9780822355441 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0822355442 (cloth : alkaline paper) 0822355590 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | TX360 |
| CLC: |
R155.1-171.2 R151-171.2 |
| Call Number: | R151-171.2/B599 |