SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 56) communication Revised Cahn Sketch #1C 06/20/08 Black / PMS 377C FAMILy VIOLENCE Edited by DUDLEY D. CAHN MEASuRED MEALS Nutrition in America Jessica J. Mudry Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language. As nutritional studies proliferate, producing more and more knowledge about the connection between diet and health, Americans seem increasingly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. In Measured Meals, Jessica J. Mudry looks at the language used in the United States to communicate about health and nutrition, and reveals its effects on reframing, reshaping, and controlling what and how Americans eat. Analyzing the USDA and American federal food guidelines over the past one hundred years, Mudry shows how the language of nutrition has evolved over time. She critiques the trend of discussing food in terms of quantification—calories, vitamins, and serving sizes. She also examines how organizations such as the USDA attempt to legislate a healthy diet by mandating quantities of food based on measurable nutrients, revealing the power of language to make meaning and influence social action. “This is a fascinating rhetorical criticism and history of our cultural addiction to quantification as a means of communicating about food and eating.” — Kathleen LeBesco, coeditor of Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning Jessica J. Mudry is Assistant Professor of Science and Technical Communication at Concordia University. FEBRuARy • 224 pp • 2 figures $65.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-9381-6 Communication Processes Dudley D. Cahn, editor Contributors engage the communication issues associated with violence in families, including interspousal violence and violent parents and children. Family Violence Communication Processes Although the United States has a high level of affluence and education compared to much of the rest of the world, neither wealth nor schooling ensures personal safety, particularly within the family and home. Every ten seconds, a child is beaten, neglected, or molested by his or her own family members, and many couples and children can be violent, abusive, and aggressive towards other family members as well. Family Violence focuses on the communication processes that occur before, during, and after these episodes. Contributors to the volume include both established scholars and newcomers to the communication field who use quantitative and qualitative approaches to unravel the complexities of the communication processes that are at the center of violence in families. Essays cover a range of topics, focusing separately on couples violence and violence between parents and children, and through the lens of communication research shed new light on the significant problem of domestic violence in the United States. Dudley D. Cahn is Professor of Communication at the State University of New York College at New Paltz. He is the editor of several books, the author of Conflict in Intimate Relationships, and the coauthor (with Ruth Anna Abigail) of Managing Conflict Through Communication. A volume in the SUNY series in Communication Studies Dudley D. Cahn, editor FEBRuARy • 240 pp 11 tables, 5 figures $70.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-9375-5 www.sunypress.edu directtext dt e directtext dt e 56 P P http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61750 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61752
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