ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
School and childcare settings
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Intersectionality and migrant parents’ perspectives on preparing lunchboxes for their children
chapter Chapter 4|21 pages
School meal reform and feeding ordering in Portugal
chapter Chapter 5|21 pages
“Don’t bring me any chickens with sad wings”
part II|2 pages
The home (and beyond)
chapter Chapter 7|17 pages
“My mum feeds me, but really, I eat whatever I want!”
part III|2 pages
New Parenting Styles?