UID:
edocfu_9958894302602883
Format:
1 online resource (222 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-62206-6
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1-280-33215-8
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9786610332151
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0-203-02594-6
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0-203-15963-2
Content:
Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to better understand who we are.The book begins by exploring the way that concerns about food, the body and pleasure were prefigured in antiquity and then how these concerns were recast in early Christianity as problems of 'natural' appetite which had to be curbed. The following chapters discuss how scientif
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Preface; Foucault, discourse, power and the subject; Governmentality of modern nutrition; Greeks to the Christians: from ethics to guilt; Religion and reason: the emergence of a discourse on nutrition; Paupers, prisoners and moral panics: refining the meaning of nutrition; The nutritional policing of families; Nutrition landscapes in the late twentieth century; Nutrition homescapes in the twentieth century; An ethnography of family food: subjects of food choice; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-20748-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203025949
