Food for thought : a multidisciplinary discussion / edited by Robert Scott Stewart and Susan A. Korol.
Material type: TextPublisher: Nova Scotia : Cape Breton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1897009690
- 9781897009697
- 641.3 23
- TX353 .F65 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 641.3 FOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A517628B |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Part I. Food, self and other -- 1. Food, consumption and why cooking matters/ Kima Cargill -- 2. Filling the empty self: fat, community and happiness/ R. S. Stewart -- 3. Fear of fat, love of lean: a historical account of body shape and obesity through art and sculpture/ Louis Grivetti -- 4. Introducing the diet industry's BFFs: modern cultural practices of obesity/ Sue Korol -- 6. From lobster suppers to combination pizza: food performance in Cape Breton/ Ian Brodie -- Part II. Food and health -- 7. The choice to breastfeed: examining breastfeeding through the multifaceted lens of health literacy/ Doris Gillis -- 8. The impact of health promotion practices on mothers' food choices -- Part III. Food resources, justice and sustainability -- 9. Sea of plenty? Histrical trends, current issues and future perspectives on our use of seafood/ Heike Lotze -- 10. Fishing for a future: challenges for a sustainable lobster fishery/ Timothy Rawlings and Bruce Hatcher -- 11. Globalisation and food security: issues and challenges of small-holder farmers in the global south/ Yogesh Ghore -- 12. Food securitychallenges: a consideration of Zambia and Zimbabwe in comparison to India/ Edwin MacLellan and David MacCorquodale -- Part IV. Food and politics -- 13. The political philosophy of the slow food movement/ Geoff Andrews -- 14. The question of elitism in the slow food movement.
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