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ISBN: 9780520959149 0520959140 9781322071367 1322071365 0520277376 9780520277373 9780520277373 9780520283459 0520283457 9780520283459 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley
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Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity-and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Until the late nineteenth century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast milk. But over the course of a few short decades, Americans began feeding their babies formula and solid foods, frequently as early as a few weeks after birth. By the 1950's, commercial baby food had become emblematic of all things modern in postwar America. Little jars of baby food were thought to resolve a multitude of problems in the domestic sphere: they reduced parental anxieties about nutrition and health; they made caretakers feel empowered; and they offered women entering the workforce an irresistible convenience. But these baby food products laden with sugar, salt, and starch also became a gateway to the industrialized diet that blossomed during this period. Today, baby food continues to be shaped by medical, commercial, and parenting trends. Baby food producers now contend with health and nutrition problems as well as the rise of alternative food movements. All of this matters because, as the author suggests, it's during infancy that American palates become acclimated to tastes and textures, including those of highly processed, minimally nutritious, and calorie-dense industrial food products.
Infants --- Babies --- Infancy --- Children --- Nutrition --- History. --- alternative food movements. --- american diet. --- american food. --- babies. --- baby food. --- breast milk. --- california studies in food and culture series. --- commercial baby food. --- commercial foods. --- domestic space. --- family. --- food consumption. --- food. --- formula. --- gastronomy. --- health. --- highly processed foods. --- history. --- industrial food products. --- industrialized diet. --- infancy. --- mothering. --- nutrition and health. --- parental care. --- parenthood. --- parenting trends. --- pediatric care. --- postwar america. --- social activity. --- social norms. --- solid foods. --- united states of america.
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ISBN: 0520958144 9780520958142 1306397669 9781306397667 9780520277403 0520277406 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley
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Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, this politically nuanced volume offers insight into the origins of alternative food movements and their place in today's global economy. Collectively, the essays cover discourses on food and morality; the material and social practices surrounding production, trade, and consumption; and the political and economic power of social movements in Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Lithuania, Russia, and Vietnam. Scholars and students will gain important historical and anthropological perspective on how the dynamics of state-market-citizen relations continue to shape the ethical and moral frameworks guiding food practices around the world.
Food consumption --- Food --- Consumption of food --- Cost and standard of living --- Food supply --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Social aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Primitive societies --- alternative food movements. --- anthropology. --- bulgaria. --- capitalism. --- china. --- consumption of food. --- critical food studies. --- cuba. --- eating. --- ethical. --- ethics. --- fair trade food. --- food and hunger. --- food and morality. --- food around the world. --- food practices. --- food. --- geography. --- global economy. --- history. --- lithuania. --- local food. --- organic food. --- political movements. --- political. --- politics of food. --- post socialist. --- production of food. --- russia. --- social movements. --- socialism. --- socialist. --- sociology. --- state market citizen relations. --- trade of food. --- vietnam.
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