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Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Series: Britain and the World
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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, women’s
history and the history of science, medicine and health.
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