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

By Julie M. Parsons

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137476400
• ISBN13: 9781137476401
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"