Children, food and identity in everyday life
By: edited by Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt and Vebjørg Tingstad
Series: Studies in childhood and youth; Studies in childhood and youth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780230575998
Description: "In exploring children's own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food, this book enables a measured and insightful understanding of the various and subtle dimensions of the relationship between children, food and identity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: children, food and identity in everyday life / Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt, Vebjørg Tingstad; title: 'It depends what you mean by feeding "on demand"': mothers' accounts of babies' agency in infant feeding relationships / Julia Keenan, Helen Stapleton; title: Negotiating family, negotiating food: children as family participants? / Allison James, Penny Curtis, Katie Ellis; title: Consuming fast food: the perceptions and practice of middle-class young teenagers / Wendy Wills, Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Julia Lawton, Mei-Li Roberts; title: 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; title: Fathering through food: children's perceptions of fathers' contributions to family food practices / Penny Curtis, Allison James, Katie Ellis; title: Children's subjectivities and commercial meaning: the delicate battle mothers wage when feeding their children / Daniel Thomas Cook; title: Children's 'becoming' in frontiering foodscapes / Helen Brembeck; title: Food and relationships: children's experiences in residential care / Samantha Punch, Jan McIntosh, Ruth Emond, Nika Dorrer; title: Discourses on children obesity and television advertising in the Norwegian welfare state / Vebjørg Tingstad; title: '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; title: Index.