Feeding Anxieties by Boni, Zofia;

Short description:

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.

Long description:

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children in Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties, and how such anxiety is at the heart of a new form of sociality. The book complicates our understanding of health and modern subjectivity and unpacks what and how we feed children today.

Table of Contents:

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List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Eat in Context
Chapter 2. Eat and Have some Fun
Chapter 3. Eat just a Little Bit More
Chapter 4. Eat Like a Normal Person
Chapter 5. Eat for the Greater Good

Conclusion

References
Index