Download Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health AudioBook Free
Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of diet reform in the United States from the past due nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional knowledge through the modern alternative food movements and marketing campaign against excess weight. Charlotte Biltekoff analyzes the discourses of diet reform, like the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their text messages to the general public. She shows that while the principal purpose may be to boost health, the process of teaching people to "eat right" in the U.S. inevitably involves shaping certain types of themes and residents, and shoring up the identification and social limitations of the ever-threatened American middle income. Without discounting the pleasures of food or the worthiness of wellness, Biltekoff advocates a crucial reappraisal of our own obsession with diet as a proxy for health. Based on her knowledge of the history of diet reform, she argues that discuss "eating right" in America too often obscures structural and environmental strains and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and essential. The reserve is posted by Duke School Press
