Racial Indigestion Eating Bodies in the 19th Century

Name: Racial Indigestion Eating Bodies in the 19th Century
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ISBN: 9780814770030

ISBN-10: 0814770037

ISBN-13: 9780814770030

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Lauri Umansky, Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination—and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?Unlike many accounts of the era,Impossible to Holdrevels in the complexities of female identity and American culture. The collection's sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and Weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties.From familiar names…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

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Acknowledgments


Introduction: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century



Kitchen Insurrections



"She Made the Table a Snare to Them": Sylvester Grahams Imperial Dietetics



"Everything 'Cept Eat Us": The Mouth as Political Organ in the Antebellum Novel



A Wholesome Girl: Addiction, Grahamite Dietetics, and Louisa May Alcott's Rose Campbell Novels



"What's De Use Talking 'Bout Dem "Mendments?": Trade Cards and Consumer Citizenship at the End of the Nineteenth Century


Conclusion: Racial Indigestion


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author