Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives
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Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives

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Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives

About this book

From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting in diverse media and situations, these contributions highlight the tensions in which mothers get entangled. They show mothers' agency — or lack thereof — in negotiating the environmental, material, and economic reality of their feeding care work while upholding other ideals of taste, nutrition, health and fitness shaped by cultural norms. The contributors to Mothers and Food go beyond the normative discourses of health and nutrition experts and beyond the idealistic images that are part of marketing strategies. They explore what really drives mothers to maintain or change their family's foodways, for better or for worse, paying a particular attention to how this shapes their maternal identity. Questioning the motto according to which "people are what they eat," the chapters in this volume show that mothers cannot be categorized simply by how they feed themselves and their family.

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Yes, you can access Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives by Pasche Florence Guignard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Demeter Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781772580617
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. I. DOMESTIC FOOD WORK AND THE FAMILY MEAL
  8. 1. Feeding without Apology
  9. SUMMARY
  10. 2. Feeding the Squeezed Middle-Class Family
  11. 3. The Critical Kitchen
  12. 4. Nurturing the Sustainable Family
  13. II. HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND NUTRITION
  14. 5. Mothering Discourse and the Marketing of Dairy as a Cancer-Fighting Food
  15. 6. Vigilance and Valour in the Kitchen
  16. 7. Feeding the Family When the Mother Is Sick
  17. 8. PumpMoms
  18. 9. Maternal Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Canada
  19. III. FOOD SECURITY IN INSECURE CIRCUMSTANCES
  20. 10. Cooking to Win the War
  21. 11. Secrets of a Food Storage Mom
  22. 12. Mothers as Managers of Scarcity
  23. 13. Feeding the Family in the Face of Climate Change
  24. 14. When Mothering Does Not “Measure Up”
  25. IV. REPRESENTATIONS, COMMUNICATION, AND MEDIA
  26. 15. Mothers as Trickster Figures Who Hide Vegetables in Kids’ Food
  27. 16. What Are We Feeding Our Children When We Read Them a Book?
  28. 17. Gluten-Free Casein-Free
  29. 18. I Feed Therefore I Am
  30. V. SPACES, BORDERS, ENVIRONMENTS AND MATERIALITY
  31. 19. Mothering and Food Work in Nuclear Family Home Design
  32. 20. Yamatji Mothers Negotiating Economic and Social Capital
  33. 21. (Re)Defining Femivorism
  34. 22. Becoming Mother, Becoming Matter
  35. About the Contributors