Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture

by Fabio Parasecoli

Book Overview

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity.

Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845207629
• ISBN13: 9781845207625
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"