Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating

ISBN-13: 9780415376211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 208 str.

John Coveney

Opis

Using the fascination with the science of nutrition in many Western cultures, this book examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table.

Spis treści

Preface to Second Edition Preface 1. Foucault, Discourse, Power and the Subject 2. Governmentality of Modern Nutrition 3. Greeks to the Christians: From Ethics to Guilt 4. Religion and Reason: The Emergence of a Discourse on Nutrition 5. Paupers, Prisoners and Moral Panics 6. The Nutritional Policing of Families 7. Nutrition Landscapes 8. Nutrition Homescapes 9. An Ethnography of Family Food: Subjects of Food Choice 10. The Governmentality of Girth 11. Conclusions Appendix References

O autorze

John Coveney