Full Description
This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on children's food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geographical locations. By unpacking mundane food occasions - from school dinners to domestic meals and from breakfast to snacks - Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home shows the role of food in the everyday lives of children and adults around them. Investigating food occasions at home, schools and in nurseries during weekdays and holidays, this book reveals how children, mothers, fathers, teachers and other adults involved in feeding children, understand, make sense of and navigate ideological discourses of parenting, health imperatives and policy interventions.
Revealing the material and symbolic complexity of feeding children, and the role that parenting and healthy discourses play in shaping, perpetuating and transforming both feeding and eating, this volume shows how micro and macro aspects are at play in mundane and everyday practices of family life and education. This volume will be of great interested to a wide range of students and researchers interested in the sociology of family life, education, food studies and everyday consumption.
Contents
1.Introduction Part I: SCHOOL AND CHILDCARE SETTINGS 2. Unsettling Food Encounters Between Families and Early Childhood Educators 3. Intersectionality and Migrant Parents' Perspectives on Preparing Lunchboxes for Their Children 4. School Meal Reform and Feeding Ordering in Portugal: Conventions and Controversies 5. 'Don't Bring Me Any Chickens with Sad Wings': Discipline, Surveillance, and 'Communal Work' in Peri-Urban Childcare Centres in Cochabamba, Bolivia Part II: THE HOME (AND BEYOND) 6. Holiday Hunger: Feeding Children During the School Holidays 7. 'My Mom Feeds Me, But Really, I Eat Whatever I Want!': Relational Approach to Feeding and Eating in Warsaw 8. Feeding in Context: Eating Occasions as Domestic Socialized Practice Part III: NEW PARENTING STYLES? 9. When Fathers Feed Their Family: The Emergence of New Father Roles in Denmark 10. Swedish Single Fathers Feeding the Family 11. Calibrating Motherhood 12. When Intensive Mothering Becomes a Necessity: Feeding Children on The Ketogenic Diet 13. Concluding Remarks
