Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating / John Coveney.
First published in 2006. Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing...
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Full Text (via Taylor & Francis) |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Summary: | First published in 2006. Food, Morals and Meaning examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table. However, instead of seeing this discipline as dominant or oppressive it argues that a rationalisation of pleasure plays a positive role in our lives, allowing us to better understand who we are. The book begins by exploring the way that concerns about food, the body and pleasure were prefigured in antiquity and then how these concerns were recast in early Christianity as problems of 'natural' appetite which had to be curbed. The following chapters discuss how scientific knowledge about food was constructed out of philosophical and religious concerns about indulgence and excess in 18th and 19th Century Europe. Finally, by using research collected from in-depth interviews with families, the last section focuses on the social organisation of food in the modern home to illustrate the ways that the meal table now incorporates the principles of nutrition as a form of moral training, especially for children. Food, Morals and Meaning will be essential reading for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness and sociology of the body. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000938975 1000938972 9781003419488 1003419488 9781000945027 1000945022 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2023). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | John Coveney |