Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life [electronic resource] /
James, A.editor.
Kjørholt, A.editor.
Tingstad, V.editor.
This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role institutions play; and how far class and ethnicity shape the food that children eat.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: children, food and identity in everyday life / Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt, Vebjørg Tingstad -- 'It depends what you mean by feeding "on demand"': mothers' accounts of babies' agency in infant feeding relationships / Julia Keenan, Helen Stapleton -- Negotiating family, negotiating food: children as family participants? / Allison James, Penny Curtis, Katie Ellis -- Consuming fast food: the perceptions and practice of middle-class young teenagers / Wendy Wills, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Julia Lawton, Mei-Li Roberts -- Picturing the lunchbox: children drawing and talking about 'dream' and 'nightmare' lunchboxes in the primary school setting / Caroline Dryden, Alan Metcalfe, Jenny Owen, Geraldine Shipton -- Fathering through food: children's perceptions of fathers' contributions to family food practices / Penny Curtis, Allison James, Katie Ellis -- Children's subjectivities and commercial meaning: the delicate battle mothers wage when feeding their children / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Children's 'becoming' in frontiering foodscapes / Helen Brembeck -- Food and relationships: children's experiences in residential care / Samantha Punch, Jan McIntosh, Ruth Emond, Nika Dorrer -- Discourses on children obesity and television advertising in the Norwegian welfare state / Vebjørg Tingstad -- 'I don't care if it does me good, I like it': childhood, health and enjoyment in British women's magazine food advertising / Joseph Burridge -- Index.
This book explores the significance of food practices for childhood identities, from early babyhood to middle childhood and teenage years. It examines how children and families negotiate food and eating practices; what influence the media has on these; the role institutions play; and how far class and ethnicity shape the food that children eat.
Social work.
Sociology.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social policy.
Social groups.
Family.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Social Work.
Gender Studies.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Family.