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

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

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series California studies in food and culture ; 58 California studies in food and culture ; 58. 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 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 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 Analysis american body politic american dietary guidelines american eating dangerous diets dietary control in america dietary reform digestion food and nutrition food control food habits in the us food obsession food science gut health history of food history of nutrition ideal diet for humans ingestion marketing nutrition popular diets social activism in america social aspects of food what should i eat white middle class diets Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT DIET (Event) fast Subject Food habits -- United States -- History Diet -- Political aspects -- United States Diet -- Social aspects -- United States Feeding Behavior -- history Social Control, Informal -- history Sociological Factors SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic -- General. Diet -- Social aspects Buddhism and politics Food habits Social aspects Matvanor -- politiska aspekter. Matvanor -- sociala aspekter. Nutrition -- politiska aspekter. Dietmat -- sociala aspekter. Dietmat -- politiska aspekter. Historia. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015018713 ISBN 9780520962132 0520962133

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