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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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