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Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
E. Melanie Dupuis
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Description for Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Hardback. Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; MBNH3; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country's founders to the abolitionists to the social activists of today, those seeking to form and reform American society have cast their social-change goals in ingestive terms of choice and control. But they have realized their metaphors in concrete terms as well, purveying specific advice to the public about what to eat or not. These conversations ... Read more
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country's founders to the abolitionists to the social activists of today, those seeking to form and reform American society have cast their social-change goals in ingestive terms of choice and control. But they have realized their metaphors in concrete terms as well, purveying specific advice to the public about what to eat or not. These conversations ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520275478
SKU
V9780520275478
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About E. Melanie Dupuis
E. Melanie DuPuis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies and Science at Pace University. She is author of Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink, among other books.
Reviews for Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Dangerous Digestion is provocative and frequently fascinating, and its expansive consideration of dietary reform contributes in important ways to recent scholarship on food advice. The Chronicle of Higher Education