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UNINA9910459081703321 |
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Pampel Fred C |
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The institutional context of population change [[electronic resource] ] : patterns of fertility and mortality across high-income nations / / Fred C. Pampel |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2001 |
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1-282-58496-0 |
9786612584961 |
0-226-64527-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Population and development |
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Population policy |
Fertility, Human |
Economic development |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index. |
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pt. 1. The institutional context of population change -- pt. 2. Fertility -- pt. 3. Mortality -- pt. 4. Sex differences in mortality. |
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Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for men and women who are unable to work and have policies to ease the burdens of working mothers. The United States, in contrast, does not. This study demonstrates how public policy differences such as these affect childbearing among working women, moderate pressures for suicide and homicide among the young and old, and shape sex difference in suicide and homicide. The Institutional Context of Population Change cuts across numerous political and sociological topics, including political sociology, stratification, sex and gender, and aging. It persuasively shows the importance of public policies for understanding the demographic consequences of population change |
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and the importance of demographic change for understanding the consequences of public policies. |
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UNINA9910524677503321 |
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Klein Lauren F. |
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An archive of taste : race and eating in the early United States / / Lauren F. Klein |
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University of Minnesota Press, 2020 |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : illustrations |
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Enslaved persons - United States - Social conditions |
Cooking, American - History |
Food habits - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : no eating in the archive -- Taste : eating and aesthetics in the early United States -- Appetite : eating, embodiment, and the tasteful subject -- Satisfaction : aesthetics, speculation, and the theory of cookbooks -- Imagination : food, fiction, and the limits of taste -- Absence : slavery and silence in the archive of eating -- Epilogue : two portraits of taste. |
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There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating--or, at least, no food--preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive. Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics |
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together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation's founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture--from Thomas Jefferson's emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell's Domestic Cookbook, the first African American-authored culinary text. The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States. |
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