Title Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa / Lacey Sparks

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Series Britain and the world, 2947-7190 Britain and the world. 2947-7190 Contents Intro -- Contents -- 1 Setting the Table: Debates on the New Science of Nutrition -- 2 Gathering Ingredients: Collecting Data on Nutrition in Britain and British Africa -- The Interwar Context of Nutrition Science -- The Domestic Problem of Nutrition in Britain -- The Transnational Problem of Nutrition -- The British Secretary of State for the Colonies Responds -- Conclusion -- 3 Picky Eaters: Policymakers Turn to Education to Solve Malnutrition -- The Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire -- The Blacklock Report -- The Esdaile Memo -- The Domestic Science Survey -- Conclusion 4 Not Your Grandmother's Cooking: Domestic Science in Britain and British Africa -- Victorian Roots -- Victorian Domestic Science Background in Britain and Africa -- The Schools: Berridge House and Queen's College -- Conclusion -- 5 Fusion Cooking: Nutrition Education in Britain and British Africa -- Material Realities of Domestic Science Facilities in London and Lagos -- Degrees and Courses in Britain and Nigeria -- Exams in Britain and Nigeria -- Conclusion -- 6 Experimenting with the Recipe: Nutrition Education Pedagogies -- The White Woman's Burden Civilizing Revolution Without Colonial Revolt -- Morality and African Education -- Conclusion -- 7 A Seat at the Table: Nigerian Women Shape the Curriculum -- Practical versus Traditional Education -- Nigerians Create the Kind of Classroom They Want -- Conclusion -- 8 The Proof is in the Pudding: Indigenous Farming Points the Way Forward -- Immediate Aftermath -- Long-Term Aftermath -- The Bigger Picture -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa. While histories of science, medicine and British Empire have provided fertile analytical ground for decades, the field of nutrition science has received comparatively little attention. Widespread malnutrition between the World Wars called into question the role of the British state in preserving the welfare of both its citizens and its subjects, especially women, given their role in feeding their families. International organizations such as the League of Nations, empire- wide projects such as nutrition surveys conducted by the Committee for Nutrition in the Colonial Empire (CNCE), sub-imperial networks of medical and teaching professionals, and individuals on-the-spot wove a dense web of ideas on nutrition. Women, especially of the working class, bore the brunt of the struggle to access nutritious food as a wave of interest in the new science of nutrition swept the globe between the wars, with imperial Britain in the lead. The British state buoyed the economic slump of the Great Depression in the metropole by importing more colonial goods more cheaply, feeding metropolitan Brits on the back of the colonial empire, particularly in Africa. This book stands apart for the way it places nutrition science in both Britain and Africa under a single analytic lens of economics, gender and empire, contributing to research on British and African history, British Empire, womens history and the history of science, medicine and health. Lacey Sparks is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southern Maine, in the USA. Her research focuses on Britain and the empire, gender, and the cultural history of food, science, and medicine. She is particularly interested in the multiple and multidirectional exchanges political, economic, and culturalthat comprised and subverted the Empire. She also teaches World History, History of the British Empire, Womens History, and History of Africa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2023) Subject Nutrition -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Nutrition -- Africa, English-speaking -- History -- 20th century International relations Nutrition SUBJECT Great Britain -- Relations -- Africa Africa -- Relations -- Great Britain Subject Africa English-speaking Africa Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 3031235215 9783031235214

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