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| Genre: | Internetbron |
|---|---|
| Soort document: | Boek, Internetbron |
| Alle auteurs / medewerkers: |
Susan Levine |
| ISBN: | 9780691050881 0691050880 9780691146195 0691146195 |
| OCLC-nummer: | 157022766 |
| Opmerkingen: | 1st pbk printing 2010. |
| Beschrijving: | x, 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Inhoud: | Introduction. The politics of lunch -- 1. A diet for Americans. The search for a scientific diet ; A diet for Americans ; Nutrition and malnutrition ; School lunch as public policy -- 2. Welfare for farmers and children. School lunches for hungry children ; Eating the surplus ; The institutionalization of school lunch -- 3. Nutrition standards and standard diets. School lunch standards ; Nutrition in the national defense ; Eating democracy -- 4. A national school lunch program. Agriculture or education? ; The liberal compromise ; Discrimination and segregation -- 5. Ideals and realities in the lunchroom. Nutrition and surplus commodities ; Nutrition and the food service industry ; The limits of the lunchroom -- 6. No free lunch. Discovering hunger in America ; Agriculture or welfare? ; Food and the poverty line -- 7. A right to lunch. The free lunch mandate ; The women's campaign ; School lunch and civil rights ; Eligibility standards and the right to lunch -- 8. Let them eat ketchup. Who pays for free lunch? ; Combo meals and nutrition standards ; Ketchup and other vegetables -- Epilogue. Fast food and poor children. |
| Serietitel: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America. |
| Verantwoordelijkheid: | Susan Levine. |
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A comprehensive examination of school lunches' complex history from the birth of home economics and food as a nutritional science to the arrival of vending machines in cafeterias. -- Eliza Krigman The Nation [T]his book is an admirable history of the political landscape of school lunch, setting the stage for future scholarship on this rich and intriguing topic... Levine's book is a fine study of the history of school lunch vis-a-vis welfare programs and politics. -- Amy Bentley American Historical Review [Susan Levine] traces the [school lunch] program back to the Progressive Era, when localized charities distributed school lunches as a way to counteract malnutrition. But over the course of the program's lifetime, the interests of the agricultural and commercial food industries have largely superseded those of students. Levine provides an in-depth look at how such factors as early nutritionists' disdain for Italian cooking have led to the ubiquitous greasy pizza of today's school cafeteria. Education Week Levine chronicles the history of what she describes as the most popular--yet flawed and poorly understood--social welfare program in the US: The National School Lunch Program... While studies in the politics of food have become popular in the last decade, as have studies of welfare, Levine's work stands out for linking these two areas of inquiry. -- M. J. Garrison Choice Levine has succeeded in writing the rare policy history that is also a page turner. Her engaging and at times witty prose tells a story of food science, agricultural surplus, gender, race, and the welfare state. She puts a human face on the policy makers in this story, if not the recipients of free lunches. -- Meghan K. Winchell Reviews in American History Susan Levine's highly readable and politically astute history of the school lunch program explains why things have not worked out as well for that program. The answer Levine provides in this book is quite sobering. Perhaps, the more people read books like Susan Levine's, the more citizens can empower themselves to push past those constraints and begin to address the fundamental inequities that persist in the U.S. -- Sanford Schram Teachers College Record This book is an excellent resource for FCS professionals involved in food and nutrition, as well as those interested in the early work of Ellen Richards. The illustrations and tables are helpful. -- Claudia A. Engelmeier Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences [G]iven Levine's thorough account of the political events that shaped the century-long history of American school lunch programs, it is likely that they will find plenty of useful references as they seek to solve the dilemma Levine describes: how to serve up balanced meals with available resources, while attending to economic and racial inequalities. Above all, we are left convinced that school lunch is everyone's problem, one way or another. -- Sharron Dalton Gastronomica Historians of education should find it to be a provocative study that questions the role of the public school in a new and interesting way. -- Jayne R. Beilke H-Net Reviews Meer lezen...
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- National school lunch program.
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- Children -- Nutrition -- United States.
- Sozialpolitik.
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