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Changing families, changing food

Author: Peter Jackson
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series: Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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With debates about the quality of school meals, high-profile attempts to improve people's cooking skills and widespread concern about growing obesity rates, a reassessment of family eating habits has never been a more topical. 'Changing Families, Changing Food' addresses key concerns.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Jackson
ISBN: 9780230223981 0230223982
OCLC Number: 290433005
Description: xv, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. Pregnancy and motherhood --
Off to a healthy start : food support benefits of low-income women in pregnancy / Fiona Ford and Robert Fraser --
(New) family formation and the organisation of food in households : who does what and why? / Helen Stapleton and Julia Keenan --
Pregnancy police? Maternal bodies, surveillance and food / Rebekah Fox, Paula Nicolson and Kristin Heffernan --
Pt. II. Childhood and family life --
'She's got a really good attitude to healthy food...Nannan's drilled it into her' : inter-generational relations within families / Penny Curtis, Allison James and Katie Ellis --
Fathers, food and family life / Alan Metcalfe ... [et al.] --
"I don't go in for all that scaremongering' : parental attitudes to food safety risk / Lindsay Blank ... [et al.] --
Pt. III. Family meals --
Myths of the family meal : re-reading Edwardian life histories / Peter Jackson, Sarah Olive and Graham Smith --
Food as a medium for emotional management of the family : avoiding complaint and producing love / Joseph Burridge and Margo Barker --
The governing of family meals in the UK and Japan / Takeda Hiroko --
Pt. IV. Family and community --
Eating in time, eating up time / Megan Blake ... [et al.] --
Making healthy families? / Trish Green ... [et al.] --
Institutional dining rooms : food ideologies and the making of a person / Oscar Forero ... [et al.].
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
Responsibility: edited By Peter Jackson.
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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  Read more...

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