Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa / Lacey Sparks.
Sparks, Lacey.
2023
TX360.G7 S73 2023
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Title Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa / Lacey Sparks.
Author Sparks, Lacey.
ISBN 3031235215 electronic book
9783031235214 (electronic bk.)
3031235207
9783031235207
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23521-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-23521-4 doi
Call Number TX360.G7 S73 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.80941
Summary In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa. While histories of science, medicine and British Empire have provided fertile analytical ground for decades, the field of nutrition science has received comparatively little attention. Widespread malnutrition between the World Wars called into question the role of the British state in preserving the welfare of both its citizens and its subjects, especially women, given their role in feeding their families. International organizations such as the League of Nations, empire- wide projects such as nutrition surveys conducted by the Committee for Nutrition in the Colonial Empire (CNCE), sub-imperial networks of medical and teaching professionals, and individuals on-the-spot wove a dense web of ideas on nutrition. Women, especially of the working class, bore the brunt of the struggle to access nutritious food as a wave of interest in the new science of nutrition swept the globe between the wars, with imperial Britain in the lead. The British state buoyed the economic slump of the Great Depression in the metropole by importing more colonial goods more cheaply, feeding metropolitan Brits on the back of the colonial empire, particularly in Africa. This book stands apart for the way it places nutrition science in both Britain and Africa under a single analytic lens of economics, gender and empire, contributing to research on British and African history, British Empire, womens history and the history of science, medicine and health. Lacey Sparks is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Southern Maine, in the USA. Her research focuses on Britain and the empire, gender, and the cultural history of food, science, and medicine. She is particularly interested in the multiple and multidirectional exchanges political, economic, and culturalthat comprised and subverted the Empire. She also teaches World History, History of the British Empire, Womens History, and History of Africa.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
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Series Britain and the world. 2947-7190
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Intro
Contents
1 Setting the Table: Debates on the New Science of Nutrition
2 Gathering Ingredients: Collecting Data on Nutrition in Britain and British Africa
The Interwar Context of Nutrition Science
The Domestic Problem of Nutrition in Britain
The Transnational Problem of Nutrition
The British Secretary of State for the Colonies Responds
Conclusion
3 Picky Eaters: Policymakers Turn to Education to Solve Malnutrition
The Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire
The Blacklock Report
The Esdaile Memo
The Domestic Science Survey
Conclusion

4 Not Your Grandmother's Cooking: Domestic Science in Britain and British Africa
Victorian Roots
Victorian Domestic Science Background in Britain and Africa
The Schools: Berridge House and Queen's College
Conclusion
5 Fusion Cooking: Nutrition Education in Britain and British Africa
Material Realities of Domestic Science Facilities in London and Lagos
Degrees and Courses in Britain and Nigeria
Exams in Britain and Nigeria
Conclusion
6 Experimenting with the Recipe: Nutrition Education Pedagogies
The White Woman's Burden

Civilizing Revolution Without Colonial Revolt
Morality and African Education
Conclusion
7 A Seat at the Table: Nigerian Women Shape the Curriculum
Practical versus Traditional Education
Nigerians Create the Kind of Classroom They Want
Conclusion
8 The Proof is in the Pudding: Indigenous Farming Points the Way Forward
Immediate Aftermath
Long-Term Aftermath
The Bigger Picture
Bibliography
Index

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