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Author:

Veit, Helen Zoe, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Diet--United States--History--20th century.
Food habits--United States--History--20th century.
Food habits--United States--Psychological aspects.
Body image--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1469607700 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469607702 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)821067772

LCCN:

2012049092

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)