{"product_id":"dangerous-digestion-58-e-melanie-dupuis-9780520287488","title":"Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice Volume 58","description":"Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country's founders to the abolitionists to the social activists of today, those seeking to form and reform American society have cast their social-change goals in ingestive terms of choice and control. But they have realized their metaphors in concrete terms as well, purveying specific advice to the public about what to eat or not. These conversations about \"social change as eating\" reflect American ideals of freedom, purity, and virtue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Digestion\u003c\/i\u003e examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform. Inspired by new scientific studies of the human body as a metabiome--a collaboration of species rather than an isolated, intact, protected, and bounded individual--E. Melanie DuPuis invokes a new metaphor--digestion--to reimagine the American body politic, opening social transformations to ideas of mixing, fermentation, and collaboration. In doing so, the author explores how social activists can rethink politics as inclusive processes that involve the inherently risky mixing of cultures, standpoints, and ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. Melanie Dupuis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520287487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520287488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"E. Melanie Dupuis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054840836351,"sku":"9780520287488","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd01694b-e52c-4bbb-a55c-043b6f00f0b1.jpg?v=1685032306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dangerous-digestion-58-e-melanie-dupuis-9780520287488","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}