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Governing bodies : American politics and the shaping of the modern physique /

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moran, Rachel Louise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t CONTENTS --  |t Introduction. Weight of the Nation --  |t Chapter 1. The Advisory State World War I Made: Scientific Nutrition and Scientific Mothering --  |t Chapter 2. Boys into Men: Depression-Era Physique in the Civilian Conservation Corps --  |t Chapter 3. Men into Soldiers: World War II and the Conscripted Body --  |t Chapter 4. Selling Postwar Fitness: Advertising, Education, and the President's Council --  |t Chapter 5. Wasted Bodies: Emaciation and the War on Poverty --  |t Chapter 6. Poor Choices: Weight, Welfare, and WIC in the 1970s --  |t Conclusion. Governing American Bodies --  |t Notes --  |t Index --  |t Acknowledgments. 
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