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Record Nr.

UNINA9910279582803321

Autore

Coveney John

Titolo

Food, morals, and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / / John Coveney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-62206-6

1-280-33215-8

9786610332151

0-203-02594-6

0-203-15963-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Nutrition - Moral and ethical aspects

Food - Moral and ethical aspects

Nutrition - Social aspects

Food - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Foucault, discourse, power and the subject; Governmentality of modern nutrition; Greeks to the Christians: from ethics to guilt; Religion and reason: the emergence of a discourse on nutrition; Paupers, prisoners and moral panics: refining the meaning of nutrition; The nutritional policing of families; Nutrition landscapes in the late twentieth century; Nutrition homescapes in the twentieth century; An ethnography of family food: subjects of food choice; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to better understand who we are.The book begins by exploring the way that concerns about food, the body and pleasure were prefigured in antiquity and then how these concerns were recast in early Christianity



as problems of 'natural' appetite which had to be curbed. The following chapters discuss how scientif