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题名/责任者:

Dangerous digestion : the politics of american dietary advice / E. Melanie DuPuis.

出版发行项:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

出版发行项:

?2015

ISBN:

9780520287488 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN:

0520287487 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN:

9780520275478 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN:

0520275470 (cloth : alk. paper)

载体形态项:

xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

丛编说明:

California studies in food and culture ; 58

个人责任者:

DuPuis, E. Melanie (Erna Melanie), 1957- author.

论题主题:

Food habits-United States-History.

论题主题:

Diet-Political aspects-United States.

论题主题:

Diet-Social aspects-United States.

中图法分类号:

K897.12

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"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 about 'social change as eating' reflect American ideals of freedom, purity, and virtue. Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, Dangerous Digestion examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform. Inspired by new scientific studies of the human body as a metabiome--a collaboration of species rather than an isolated, intact, protected, and bounded individual--E. Melanie DuPuis reimagines the American body politic through a new metaphor--digestion--opening social transformations to ideas of mixing, fermentation, and collaboration. In doing so, the author explores how social activists can rethink politics as inclusive processes that involve the inherently risky mixing of cultures, standpoints, and ideas"--Provided by publisher.

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