A Sociology of Food and Nutrition

A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite 3eintroduces readers to the field of food sociology. Leading Australian and international authors in the field provide a contemporary analysis of the social factors that underlie food choice. There are two new chapters exploring the political and social implications of food and nutrition.

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PART 1: AN APPETISER; 1. Exploring the Social Appetite: A Sociology of Food and Nutrition John Germov and Lauren Williams; PART 2: THE FOOD SYSTEM: GLOBALIZATION AND AGRIBUSINESS; 2. World Hunger: Its Roots and Remedies Frances Moore Lappe; 3. Unsustainable Food Production: Its Social Origins and Alternatives Terry Leahy; 4. Agribusiness, Genetic Engineering and the Corporatization of Food Geoffrey Lawrence and Janet Grice; 5. Operating Upstream and Downstream: How Supermakets Exercise Power in the Food System Jane Dixon; PART 3: FOOD AND NUTRITION DISCOURSES, POLITICS, AND POLICIES; 6. The Politics of Government Dietary Advice Jennifer Lisa Falbe and Marion Nestle; 7. Functional Foods and Public Health Nutrition Policy Mark Lawrence and John Germov; 9. Risk, Maternal Ideologies, and Infant Feeding Elizabeth Murphy; 10. The Government of the Table: nutrition Expertise and the Social Organization of Family Food Habits John Coveney; PART 4: FOOD CONSUMPTION, SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AND IDENTITY; 11. Culinary Cultures of Europe: Food, History, Health and Identity Stephen Mennell; 12. Class, Food, and Identity John Germov; 13. Humans, Food, and Other Animals: The Vegetarian Option Deidre Wicks; 14. Food and Ageing Wm. Alex McIntosh and Karen S. Kubena; PART 5: FOOD AND THE BODY: CIVILIZING PROCESSES AND SOCIAL EMBODIMENT; 15. Constructing the Female Body: Dieting, the Thin Ideal and Body Acceptance Lauren Williams and John Germov; 16. The Social Construction of Eating Disorders Julie Hepworth; 17. Sociological Analysis of the Stigmatization of Obesity Jeffery Sobal

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