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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782819903321

Autore

Parasecoli Fabio

Titolo

Bite me : food in popular culture / / Fabio Parasecoli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Berg, , 2008

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-350-04461-X

1-84788-604-3

1-282-28596-3

9786612285967

1-84788-453-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Classificazione

LC 17000

Disciplina

394.1/2

Soggetti

Food - Social aspects

Food habits

Food & society

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 (pages 153-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pop Culture Drama -- Hungry Memories -- Of Breasts and Beasts -- Tasty Utopias -- Quilting the Empty Body -- Jam, Juice, and Strange Fruits -- Tourism and Taste.

Sommario/riassunto

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.