Dangerous digestion : the politics of american dietary advice / E. Melanie DuPuis.
Dangerous digestion : the politics of american dietary advice / E. Melanie DuPuis.
Dangerous digestion : the politics of american dietary advice / E. Melanie DuPuis.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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G 2016/9
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Free and orderly bodies -- Diet and the romance of reform -- Gut wars : gilded age struggles against purity -- Pure food and the progressive body -- Good food, bad romance -- The conundrum of purity -- Ferment : an ecology of the body -- Toward a fermentive politics.
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
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California
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"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 ac...
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Dangerous digestion : the politics of american dietary advice / E. Melanie DuPuis.
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California studies in food and culture ; 58.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
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©2015.
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G 2016/9
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74VKzvopkrdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzvopkrdl
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ISBN
9780520275478 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520275470 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520287488 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520287487 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
DDC
394.120973
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991023399759702626
