Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care
- ISBN-10
- 1517910552
- ISBN-13
- 9781517910556
- Category
- Food allergy
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Author
- Danya Glabau
Description
"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. Food Allergy Advocacy raises important questions about who controls illness activism"--
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