Modern Food, Moral Food : Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century /

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American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rule...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Veit, Helen Zoe (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Food habits > Psychological aspects.
Food habits.
Body image.
Diet.
Nutrition > Requirements.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Alimentation > Besoins.
Image du corps > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Alimentation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Food > history
Feeding Behavior > psychology
History, 20th Century
Nutritional Requirements
Social Conditions > history
Diet > history
Body image > United States > History > 20th century.
Food habits > United States > Psychological aspects.
Food habits > United States > History > 20th century.
Diet > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
United States
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Victory over ourselves : American food in the era of the Great War
  • 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
  • Epilogue : Moral food and modern food.

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