Description: Eating Right in America Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Cultural Politics of Food and Health Author(s): Charlotte Biltekoff Format: Paperback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9780822355595, 978-0822355595 Synopsis 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 [url] 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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Book Title: Eating Right in America
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Eating Right in America: the Cultural Politics of Food and Health
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Sociology, History, Healthcare System
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 290 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Charlotte Biltekoff
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
