Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the family meal, the individualization of food choice andthe relationship between professional advice on healthy eating and the everyday practices of 'doing family'. INDICE: Introduction; P.Jackson - PART I: PREGNANCY AND MOTHERHOOD - Off to a Healthy Start: Food Support Benefits of the Low-income Woman in Pregnancy;F.Ford ; R.Fraser - (New) Family Formation and the Organisation of Food in Households: Who Does What and Why?; H.Stapleton ; J.Keenan - Pregnancy Police? Maternal Bodies, Surveillance and Food; R.Fox, P.Nicolson ; K.Heffernan - PART II: CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY LIFE - 'She's got a really good attitude to healthy foodb& Nannan's drilled it into her': Intergenerational Relations within Families; P.Curtis, A.James ; K.Ellis - Fathers, Food and Family Life; C.Dryden, M.Johnson, A.Metcalfe, J.Owen ; G.Shipton - 'I don't go in for all that scaremongering': Perceptions of and Strategies to Manage Food Safety Risk; L.Blank, P.Bissell, E.Goyder ; H.Clark - PART III: FAMILY MEALS - Myths of the Family Meal: Re-reading Edwardian Life Histories; P.Jackson, S.Olive ; G.Smith - Food as a Medium for Emotional Management of the Family: Avoiding Complaint and Producing Love; J.Burridge ; M.Barker - The Governing of Family Meals in the UK and Japan; H.Takeda - Eating in Time, Eating up Time; M.Blake, L.Crane ; J.Mellor - PART IV: FAMILY AND COMMUNITY - Making Healthy Families?; T.Green, J.Owen, P.Curtis, G.Smith, P.Ward ; P.Fisher - Food and Family in the Narratives of Homeless People; G.Smith, P.Nicolson ; R.Brown - Institutional Dining Rooms: FoodIdeologies and the Making of a Person; O.Forero, K.Ellis, A.Metcalfe ; R.Brown - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22398-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés