Feeding the Middle Classes
Taste, Class and Domestic Food Practices
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2023
180 pages
978-1-5292-1489-5 (ISBN)
Description
Political and public stories about class and food rarely scrutinize how socio-economic and cultural resources enable access to certain foods.
Tracing the symbolic links between everyday eating at home and broader social frameworks, this book examines how classed relations play out in middle-class homes to show why class is relevant to all understandings of food in Great Britain.
The author illuminates how 'good' food, and the identities configured through its consumption, is associated with middle-class lifestyles and why this relationship is often unquestioned and thus saliently normalized.
Considering food consumption in a wider social context, the book offers an alternative understanding of class relations, which extends academic, political and public debates about privilege.
Tracing the symbolic links between everyday eating at home and broader social frameworks, this book examines how classed relations play out in middle-class homes to show why class is relevant to all understandings of food in Great Britain.
The author illuminates how 'good' food, and the identities configured through its consumption, is associated with middle-class lifestyles and why this relationship is often unquestioned and thus saliently normalized.
Considering food consumption in a wider social context, the book offers an alternative understanding of class relations, which extends academic, political and public debates about privilege.
Reviews / Votes
"This is an important study: with great care and sophistication Kate Gibson delineates the ways in which food is never 'just' food, but is laden with meanings that carry the weight of social class." Steph Lawler, University of YorkMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
File size
5,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-1489-5 (9781529214895)
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Book
11/2023
1st Edition
Bristol University Press
€129.50
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Person
Kate Gibson is Lecturer of Social Science in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food
3. Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities, and Biographical Transitions
4. Homemade Food: Individualised Processes of Household Investment
5. Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste
6. Conclusion
2. Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food
3. Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities, and Biographical Transitions
4. Homemade Food: Individualised Processes of Household Investment
5. Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste
6. Conclusion
