%0 Journal Article
%T Eating Serial: Beatrice Lindsay, Vegetarianism, and the Tactics of Everyday Life in the Late Nineteenth Century
%A Liam Young
%J Societies
%P 65-88
%D 2015
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/soc5010065
%X This paper derives from research I conducted in the archives of the Vegetarian Society, in Manchester, in October 2011 on the figure of Beatrice Lindsay, a graduate from Girton College, Cambridge, who, in 1885, became the first female editor of the Society¡¯s journal, the Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger. In addition to her position as editor, Lindsay contributed a monthly column on ¡°New Foods¡± in which she displayed her fluency with scientific terminology not simply to advocate the vegetarian diet, but to make the diet practicable for readers. I argue that her column uses the serial form of the periodical, which presents novel content within a regular structure, to shape inchoate vegetarianism: she gradually constituted the emerging diets, habits, and bodies of vegetarians by, each month, introducing readers to novel content (¡°new foods¡±) within a recurrent form.
%K vegetarianism
%K periodical studies
%K Beatrice Lindsay
%K food choices
%K social change
%K Foucault
%K the ethics of eating
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/5/1/65