Gender, Class and Food: Families, Bodies and Health (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)

Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon auto/biographical food narratives and emphasises the power of everyday foodways in maintaining and reinforcing social divisions along the lines of gender and class. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Introduction....Pages 1-23 Family Foodways....Pages 24-50 Maternal Foodways....Pages 51-78 Health Foodways....Pages 79-106 Embodied Foodways....Pages 107-133 Epicurean Foodways....Pages 134-161 Reflections....Pages 162-169 Back Matter....Pages 170-195