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Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care

Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care

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AnthropologyAgricultureGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1517910552
ISBN13: 9781517910556
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: May 10 2022
Pages: 288
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy

The success of food allergy activism in highlighting the dangers of foodborne allergens shows how illness communities can effectively advocate for the needs of their members. In Food Allergy Advocacy, Danya Glabau follows parents and activists as they fight for allergen-free environments, accurate labeling, the fair application of disability law, and access to life-saving medications for food-allergic children in the United States. At the same time, she shows how this activism also reproduces the culturally dominant politics of personhood and responsibility, based on an idealized version of the American family, centered around white, middle-class, and heteronormative motherhood.

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