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“The pursuit of health became a means for professionalizing middle class of he late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to know and identify itself and to stake claims to responsibility and authority. Health became a key marker of middle-class morality and identity, but its utility as such derived in large part from the way it could distinguish members of the responsible middle class from those beneath them in the social hierarchy who failed to achieve the goal of health.”

Health Diet Culture Class Politics

Book:Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

Source: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

“Wilson was the clay-footed prophet of the British-Scots middle class. He created a flatulent rhetoric of national feeling as an antidote to either true national cosciousness or will. He exploited nationalism and religion in order to pursue class politics.”

Middle Class Nationalism Rhetoric Scotland National Consciousness Class Politics Christopher North John Wilson

Book:The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Nineteenth Century

Source: The History of Scottish Literature, Volume 3: Nineteenth Century