Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
ISBN-13:
9780822355595
ISBN-10:
0822355590
Edition:
9.2.2013
Author:
Charlotte Biltekoff
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Nutrition
,
United States History
,
Customs & Traditions
,
Social Sciences
,
Sociology
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ISBN-13:
9780822355595
ISBN-10:
0822355590
Edition:
9.2.2013
Author:
Charlotte Biltekoff
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Nutrition
,
United States History
,
Customs & Traditions
,
Social Sciences
,
Sociology
Summary
Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health (ISBN-13: 9780822355595 and ISBN-10: 0822355590), written by authors
Charlotte Biltekoff, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2013.
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Eating Right in America 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. Charlotte Biltekoff 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, Biltekoff 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.
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