Children, food and identity in everyday life /
edited by Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt and Vebjørg Tingstad.
- xiii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Studies in childhood and youth .
- Studies in childhood and youth. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / It depends what you mean by feeding on demand': Mothers' Accounts of Babies' Agency in Infant Feeding Relationships / Negotiating Family, Negotiating Food: Children as Family Participants? / Consuming Fast Food: The Perceptions and Practices of Middle Class Young Teenagers / Picturing the Lunchbox: Children Drawing and Talking about 'dream' and 'Nightmare' Lunchboxes in the Primary School Setting / Fathering through Food: Children's Perceptions of Fathers' Contributions to Family Food Practices / Children's Subjectivities and Commercial Meaning: The Delicate Battle Mothers Wage when Feeding their Children / Children's Becoming in Frontiering Foodscapes / Food and Relationships: Children's Experiences in Residential Care / Discourses on Child Obesity and TV Advertising in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare State / I don't care if it does me good, I like it': Childhood, Health and Enjoyment in British Women's Magazine Food Advertising / A. James, A. Kjorholt, V. Tingstad -- H. Stapleton, J. Keenan -- A. James, P. Curtis, K.Ellis -- W. Wills, K. Backett-Milburn, K. J. Lawton, M. Roberts -- C. Dryden, A. Metcalfe, J. Owen, G. Shipton -- P. Curtis, A. James, K. Ellis -- D. Thomas Cook -- H. Brembeck -- S. Punch, I. McIntosh, R. Emond, N. Dorrer -- V. Tingstad -- J. Burridge.
"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.