Changing Families, Changing Food

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Food as a Lens on Family Life....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Off to a Healthy Start: Food Support Benefits of Low-Income Women in Pregnancy....Pages 19-34
(New) Family Formation and the Organisation of Food in Households: Who Does What and Why?....Pages 35-56
Pregnancy Police? Maternal Bodies, Surveillance and Food....Pages 57-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
‘She’s got a really good attitude to healthy food…Nannan’s drilled it into her’: Inter-generational Relations within Families....Pages 77-92
Fathers, Food and Family Life....Pages 93-117
‘I don’t go in for all that scaremongering’: Parental Attitudes to Food Safety Risk....Pages 118-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Myths of the Family Meal: Re-reading Edwardian Life Histories....Pages 131-145
Food as a Medium for Emotional Management of the Family: Avoiding Complaint and Producing Love....Pages 146-164
The Governing of Family Meals in the UK and Japan....Pages 165-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Eating In Time, Eating Up Time....Pages 187-204
Making Healthy Families?....Pages 205-225
Institutional Dining Rooms: Food Ideologies and the Making of a Person....Pages 226-245
Conclusion....Pages 246-250
Back Matter....Pages 251-292