Food and culture : a reader /
Counihan, Carole,1948-
Van Esterik, Penny.
New York : Routledge,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword from The gastronomical me / M.F.K. Fisher -- Why food? Why culture? Why now?: introduction to the third edition / Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik -- [I.] Foundations : Why do we overeat? / Margaret Mead -- Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu -- The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas -- The abominable pig / Marvin Harris -- Industrial food: towards the development of a world cuisine / Jack Goody -- Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- [II.] Hegemony and difference: race, glass, and gender : More than just the "big piece of chicken': the power of race, class, and food in American consciousness / Psyche Williams-Forson -- The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming / T.J.M. Holden -- Domestic divo? Televised treatments of masculinity, femininity, and food / Rebecca Swenson -- Japanese mothers and obentōs: the lunch-box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison -- Mexicanas' food voice and differential consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole Counihan -- Feeding lesbigay families / Christopher Carrington -- Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis farmers' market / Rachel Slocum -- The raw and the rotten: punk cuisine / Dylan Clark -- [III.] Consumption and embodiment : Fast, feast, and flesh: the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Not just "a White girl's thing": the changing face of food and body image problems / Susan Bordo -- De-medicalizing anorexia: opening a new dialogue / Richard A. O'Connor -- Feeding hard bodies: food and masculinities in men's fitness magazines / Fabio Parasecoli -- Cooking skills, the senses, and memory: the fate of Practical knowledge / David Sutton -- Not "from scratch": Thai food systems and "public eating" / Gisèle Yasmeen -- Rooting out the causes of disease: why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry / Robert Albritton --
[IV.] Food and globalization : "As mother made it": the cosmopolitan Indian family, "Authentic" food, and the construction of cultural utopia / Tulasi Srinivas -- "Real Belizean food": building local identity in the transnational Caribbean / Richard Wilk -- Let's cook Thai: recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke -- Slow food and the politics of "virtuous globalization" / Alison Leitch -- Taco Bell, Maseca, slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jefferey M. Pilcher -- Food workers as individual agents of culinary globalization: pizza and pizzaioli in Japan / Rossella Ceccarini -- Of hamburger and social space: consuming McDonald's in Beijing Yungxiang Yan -- On the move for food: three women behind the tomato's journey / Deborah Barndt -- [V.] Challenging, contesting, and transforming the food system : The chain never stops / Eric Schlosser -- Fast food/organic food: reflexive tastes and the making of "yuppie chow" / Julie Guthman -- The politics of breastfeeding: an advocacy update / Penny Van Esterik -- The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp -- The political economy of obesity: the fat pay all / Alice Julier -- Want amid plenty: from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck -- Community food security "for us, by us": the nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon -- Learning democracy through food justice movements.
Food
Food habits.