The Trouble with Snack Time : : Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting / / Jennifer Patico.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Patico, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Introduction Food, Parenting, and Middle- Class Anxiety --; 1 Discerning the “Real” from the “Junk” Managing Children’s Food in the Postindustrial United States --; 2 Helicopters and Nazis Projects of Regulation, Control, and Selfhood --; 3 “He Doesn’t Like Anything Healthy!” Constructions of Childhood --; 4 Honoring the Cheese Puffs Class, Community, and Engaged Parenthood --; Conclusion Rethinking the Politics of Care and Consumption --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781479817214; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110722703
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479835331.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Patico.

Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the "cupcake wars"In the wake of school-lunch reform debates, heated classroom cupcake wars, and concerns over childhood obesity, the diet of American children has become a “crisis” and the cause of much anxiety among parents. Many food-conscious parents are well educated, progressive and white, and while they may explicitly value race and class diversity, they also worry about less educated or less well-off parents offering their children food that is unhealthy. Jennifer Patico embedded herself in an urban Atlanta charter school community, spending time at school events, after-school meetings, school lunchrooms, and private homes. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observation, she details the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children’s eating. Ultimately, Patico argues that the attitudes of middle-class parents toward food reflect an underlying neoliberal capitalist ethic, in which their need to cultivate proper food consumption for their children can actually work to reinforce class privilege and exclusion.Listening closely to adults' and children's food concerns, The Trouble with Snack Time explores those unintended effects and suggests how the "crisis" of children’s food might be reimagined toward different ends.