Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink
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DuPuis (sociology, U. of California, Santa Cruz) traces the social history of milk in the US, linking its promotion as "nature's perfect food" to notions of perfection, health, and modern industry. Additional topics include attitudes towards city versus country, agricultural practices, the story of pasteurization requirements, gender issues associated with milkmaids, land use policy, the milk strikes of the 1930s, dairy policies in Wisconsin and California, and the current controversy over bovine growth hormone. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsPt. IConsumption1Why Milk?32The Perfect Food Story173Why Not Mother? The Rise of Cow's Milk as Infant Food in Nineteenth-Century America464The Milk Question: Perfecting Food as Urban Reform675Perfect Food, Perfect Bodies90Pt. IIProduction6Perfect Farming: The Industrial Vision of Dairying1257The Less Perfect Story: Diversity and Farming Strategies1448Crisis: The "Border-Line" Problem1659Alternative Visions of Dairying: Productivism and Producerism in New York, Wisconsin, and California18310The End of Perfection210Afterword241Notes244Bibliography271Index297About the Author311
