On Hunger : Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simmons, Dana.

Series:

California Studies in Food and Culture Series

California Studies in Food and Culture Series ; v.85

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology--a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Subvention

Epigraphs

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

1. The Starving Process

2. Punishment and Reward

3. Fight-Don't Starve

4. Food Aid and the Starved Personality

5. Craving and Control

6. Weapon of White Supremacy

7. Carceral Hunger

8. Ozempic

Conclusion: They Were Hungry

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Series.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520412996

0520412990

OCLC:

1498818439