"Women, food and families" looks at how women with young families plan, provide, cook and serve food, from daily meals to special occasions. The authors interviewed women from a range of social backgrounds and the result is an account of the role played by food in relationships between women and men, parents and children within contemporary British families. It also reveals the contradictory and often problematic nature of women's own feelings towards food. The authors document the differential distribution of food within families along lines of gender and age and show that social class has a significant impact on diet. They illustrate the way in which practices surrounding food provision both reflect and create social divisions and that food conveys complex messages about power and status, love and anger, inclusion and exclusion.
- ISBN10 0719023521
- ISBN13 9780719023521
- Publish Date 29 March 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252
- Language English