"Women, food and families" looks at how women with young families plan, provide, cook and serve food, from daily meals to special occasions. The authors intervi

Millions of us are locked into an unwinnable weight game, as our self-worth is shredded with every diet failure. Combine the utter inefficacy of dieting with th

With dual-working households now the norm, Food, Families and Work is the first comprehensive study to explore how families negotiate everyday food practices in

Attempts to do justice to the complexity of contemporary families and to situate them in their economic, political, and cultural contexts. This book explores th

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations