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Modern food, moral food

Veit, Helen Zoe,

Modern food, moral food self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / [electronic resource] : Helen Zoe Veit. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (p. )

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781469612751


Social Conditions--history--United States.
Nutritional Requirements--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Food Habits--psychology--United States.
Food--history--United States.
Body Image--United States.
Diet--history--United States.


Electronic books.

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