Many Mouths
The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19936779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadja Durbach (0000-0002-1940-7156, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Many Mouths (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108594189 |
| OpenAlex | W4206810220 |
| Open Library | OL34732030M |
| ISBN | 9781108594189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 197 |
This compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic, social and cultural circumstances that led the state to feed some of its subjects, but not others. Durbach follows food policies from their conception to their implementation through case studies involving paupers, prisoners, famine victims, POWs, schoolchildren, wartime civilians and pregnant women. She explores what government food meant to those who devised, executed, used, and sometimes refused, these social services. Many Mouths seeks to understand the social, economic, and political theories that influenced these feeding schemes, within their changing historical contexts. It thus offers fresh insights into how both the administrators and the intended recipients of government food programs realized, interpreted, and made meaning out of these exchanges, and the complex relationship between the body, the state and the citizen
Famine · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Meaning (existential) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Psychology · Food · Food consumption · Great britain · History · Home economics · Nutrition policy · Social conditions
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |