E. Melanie Dupuis

This book is a solid piece of intellectual history about "perfection" and how discourses of perfection around milk reveal the way that (white) America's connections to milk have more to do with perfection than science itself supplies. I will say that this book is also subtly about whiteness, in that it is about whiteness even though DuPuis barely mentions it. The beginning half of the book, about consumption, is interesting, but the latter half of the book really gets into like geospatial analysis of what DuPuis calls the "milk belt" and it got much more difficult for me to follow (and ultimately less interesting and, I think, less relevant to DuPuis's overall arguments about perfection narratives.) Again, this book was okay, sort of interesting, but not the most convincing or interesting book to me.… (más)