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Fast food kids : French fries, lunch lines, and social ties / Amy L. Best.
LIBRA TX361.Y6 B47 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Best, Amy L., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on youth
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Nutrition--United States.
- Youth.
- Food--Social aspects--United States.
- Food.
- Convenience foods--Social aspects--United States.
- Convenience foods.
- Youth--United States--Social conditions.
- Convenience foods--Social aspects.
- Food--Social aspects.
- Youth--Nutrition.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Food habits--United States.
- Food habits.
- Youth--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today's youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object -- fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively 'take over' for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.com
- Contents:
- Introduction: Fast food kids
- The family meal : eating together, eating apart
- The cafeteria as great equalizer : making food good
- The cafeteria as youth space : social bonds and barriers
- Eat what's good for you : class and the cult of health
- I'm lovin' it : fast food and after-school hot spots
- Conclusion: Food futures and social change
- Methods appendix.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-234) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781479842704
- 1479842702
- 9781479802326
- 1479802328
- OCLC:
- 946161238
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