Changing Families, Changing Food

By Peter Jackson

Book Overview

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 food... 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: Food Ideologies and the Making of a Person; O.Forero, K.Ellis, A.Metcalfe & R.Brown Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349308862
• ISBN13: 9781349308866
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"