Governing Bodies : : American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique / / Rachel Louise Moran.
Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the...
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Moran, Rachel Louise, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Governing Bodies : American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique / Rachel Louise Moran. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (224 p.) : 15 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Culture in Modern America Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Weight of the Nation -- Chapter 1. The Advisory State World War I Made: Scientific Nutrition and Scientific Mothering -- Chapter 2. Boys into Men: Depression-Era Physique in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Chapter 3. Men into Soldiers: World War II and the Conscripted Body -- Chapter 4. Selling Postwar Fitness: Advertising, Education, and the President’s Council -- Chapter 5. Wasted Bodies: Emaciation and the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. Poor Choices: Weight, Welfare, and WIC in the 1970s -- Conclusion. Governing American Bodies -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government—especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the latest in a long, albeit often quiet, history of policy motivated by economic, military, and familial concerns. In Governing Bodies, Moran traces the tension between the intimate terrain of the individual citizen's body and the public ways in which the federal government has sought to shape the American physique over the course of the twentieth century.Distinguishing her subject from more explicit and aggressive government intrusion into the areas of sexuality and reproduction, Moran offers the concept of the "advisory state"—the use of government research, publicity, and advocacy aimed at achieving citizen support and voluntary participation to realize social goals. Instituted through outside agencies and glossy pamphlets as well as legislation, the advisory state is government out of sight yet intimately present in the lives of citizens. The activities of such groups as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Children's Bureau, the President's Council on Physical Fitness, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) implement federal body projects in subtle ways that serve to mask governmental interference in personal decisions about diet and exercise. From advice-giving to height-weight standards to mandatory nutrition education, these tactics not only empower and conceal the advisory state but also maintain the illusion of public and private boundaries, even as they become blurred in practice.Weaving together histories of the body, public policy, and social welfare, Moran analyzes a series of discrete episodes to chronicle the federal government's efforts to shape the physique of its citizenry. Governing Bodies sheds light on our present anxieties over the proper boundaries of state power. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Diet Political aspects United States History 20th century. Human body Political aspects United States History 20th century. Physical education and training Political aspects United States History 20th century. Physical fitness Political aspects United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh American History. American Studies. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 English 9783110604030 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2018 9783110603149 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295061 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295061 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812295061/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Weight of the Nation -- Chapter 1. The Advisory State World War I Made: Scientific Nutrition and Scientific Mothering -- Chapter 2. Boys into Men: Depression-Era Physique in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- Chapter 3. Men into Soldiers: World War II and the Conscripted Body -- Chapter 4. Selling Postwar Fitness: Advertising, Education, and the President’s Council -- Chapter 5. Wasted Bodies: Emaciation and the War on Poverty -- Chapter 6. Poor Choices: Weight, Welfare, and WIC in the 1970s -- Conclusion. Governing American Bodies -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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