Food, the Body and the Self

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Lupton is SHARP professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Center for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Center and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015), The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Digital Health (Routledge, 2017), Fat, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018), and Data Selves (Polity, 2019). She is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and holds an honorary doctor of social science degree awarded by the University of Copenhagen. Klappentext 'Drawing on the extensive writings that have grown up around, food, body image, nutrition theory and gender, she draws an altogether more voluptuous picture of the state of our relationship to our bodies' - Susie Orbach, Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung 'Drawing on the extensive writings that have grown up around, food, body image, nutrition theory and gender, she draws an altogether more voluptuous picture of the state of our relationship to our bodies' - Susie Orbach, Times Literary Supplement Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Theoretical Perspectives on Food and Eating Food, the Family and Childhood Food, Health and Nature Tastes and Distastes The Asceticism/Consumption Dialectic Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Lupton, Lupton Deborah
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.1996
• EAN: 9780803976481
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7648-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, COOKING / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Cookery / food & drink etc, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Social Theory;Sociology of Health & Illness