A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for
their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health
advocacy The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the
dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can
effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food
Allergy Advocacy, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as
they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the
fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving
medications for food-allergic children in the United States. At the
same time, she shows how this activism also reproduces the
culturally dominant politics of personhood and responsibility,
based on an idealized version of the American family, centered
around white, middle-class, and heteronormative motherhood. By
holding up the threat of food allergens to the white nuclear family
to galvanize political and scientific action, Glabau shows, the
movement excludes many, including Black women and disabled adults,
whose families and health have too often been marginalized from
public health and social safety net programs. Further, its
strategies are founded on the assumption that market-based
solutions will address issues of social exclusion and equal access
to healthcare. Sharing the personal experiences of a wide spectrum
of people, including parents, support group leaders, physicians,
entrepreneurs, and scientists, Food Allergy Advocacy raises
important questions about who controls illness activism. Using
critical, intersectional feminism to interrogate how race, class,
and gender shape activist priorities and platforms, it shows the
way to new, justice-focused models of advocacy.
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