Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice Volume 58

by E. Melanie DuPuis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520287487
• ISBN13: 9780520287488
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"