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Record Nr.

UNINA9911089230903321

Autore

Lupton Deborah

Titolo

Food, the body, and the self / / Deborah Lupton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1996

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage Publications, , 1996

ISBN

9780803976474

080397647X

9781283881333

1283881330

9781446264157

1446264157

9781446231692

1446231690

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 pages)

Disciplina

391.1

Soggetti

Food habits

Food - Social aspects

Food - Psychological 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.[161]-169) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Theoretical Perspectives on Food and Eating; Chapter 2 - Food, the Family and Childhood; Chapter 3 - Food, Health and Nature; Chapter 4 - Tastes and Distastes; Chapter 5 - The Asceticism/Consumption Dialectic; Conclusion; Appendix: Details of Research Strategies and Participants; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the sociocultural and personal meanings of food and eating. The author explores the relationship between food and embodiment childhood and family & the social construction of food & eating.