Abstract
Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care brings together a dynamic study of medicine, social movements and family life to illuminate the unique features of “allergy mom” advocacy. Anthropologist Danya Glabau shows that this activism reinforces the notion that white middle-class mothers in nuclear families are ideal allergy advocates. Mothers are understood as naturally responsible for protecting children from allergens and legitimized by gendered and racialized norms of family life. “Mother-blame” is a salient theme. Breastfeeding practices, foodwork, cleaning, and medical decision-making are implicated as potentially causing children’s food allergies, with hygiene and safety closely associated with social class and race. The book explores family life from an anthropological perspective, with its final chapters examining the study’s central focus: food advocacy politics. I’m a sociologist who studies parenting and family life, and I have a keen interest in qualitative methods and research ethics in particular; I evaluated the book from this perspective.
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