Burger

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The burger, long the All-American meal, is undergoing an identity crisis. From its shifting place in popular culture to efforts by investors such as Bill Gates to create the non-animal burger that can feed the world, the burger's identity has become as malleable as that patty of protein itself, before it is thrown on a grill. Carol Adams's is a fast-paced and eclectic exploration of the history, business, cultural dynamics, and gender politics of the ordinary hamburger. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

List of contents

1. Citizen Burger
2. Hamburger
3. Cow Burger
4. Woman Burger
5. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Burger and Other Modernist Hamburger Identity Crises
6. Veggie Burger
7. Moon Shot Burger
Afterword: Slippage

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Index

Report

Burger draws on an accessible combination of history and pop culture to reconsider America's obsession with the molded-ground-beef sandwich . [It] explore[s] alternative modes of offering cultural critique, pushing against traditional divisions between academic and popular writing, and between history and critique, in search of new, more palatable forms of packaging the unsettling stories behind the Anglo-American diet. Humanimalia

Product details

• Authors: Carol J. Adams, Carol J. (Activist and Freelance Author Adams
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781501329463
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2946-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 164 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Object Lessons; Object Lessons
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cultural studies: food and society