Racial indigestion : eating bodies in the 19th century / Kyla Wazana Tompkins.

  • Tompkins, Kyla Wazana
Date:
[2012]
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Publication/Creation

New York : New York University Press, [2012]

Physical description

xiii, 275 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: eating bodies in the nineteenth century -- Kitchen insurrections -- "She made the table a snare to them": Sylvester Graham's 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.

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    History of Medicine
    DFXP.6.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9780814770023
  • 0814770029
  • 9780814770030
  • 0814770037
  • 9780814770054
  • 0814770053
  • 9780814738375
  • 0814738370