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Dangerous Digestion - The Politics of American Dietary Advice (Paperback)
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Dangerous Digestion - The Politics of American Dietary Advice (Paperback)
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 58
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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 invokes
a new metaphor-digestion-to reimagine the American body politic,
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.
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