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Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.

Van Pelt Library TX360.U6 V45 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Veit, Helen Zoe, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Diet--United States--History--20th century.
Diet.
Food habits--United States--History--20th century.
Food habits.
Food habits--United States--Psychological aspects.
Body image--United States--History--20th century.
Body image.
History.
Psychological aspects.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
United States.
Social conditions.
Diet--history.
Body Image.
Food--history.
Feeding Behavior--psychology.
History, 20th Century.
Nutritional Requirements.
Social Conditions--history.
Medical Subjects:
Diet--history.
United States.
Body Image.
Food--history.
Feeding Behavior--psychology.
History, 20th Century.
Nutritional Requirements.
Social Conditions--history.
Physical Description:
xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Contents:
National willpower : American asceticism and self-government
Eating cats and dogs to feed the world : the progressive quest for rational food
Food will win the world : food aid and American power
A school for wives : home economics and the modern housewife
A corn-fed nation : race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition
Americanizing the American diet : immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods
The triumph of the will : the progressive body and the thin ideal.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1469607700
9781469607702
OCLC:
821067772
Publisher Number:
99954836355

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