Fast food kids : French fries, lunch lines, and social ties / Amy L. Best.
Best, Amy L., 1970- author.
2017
TX361.Y6 B47 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Fast food kids : French fries, lunch lines, and social ties / Amy L. Best.
Author
Best, Amy L., 1970- author.
ISBN
9781479802326 (paperback)
1479802328 (paperback)
9781479842704 (hardcover)
1479842702 (hardcover)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
xiv, 245 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
TX361.Y6 B47 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
642/.1
Summary
The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today's youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object-fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively 'take over' for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.com
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-234) and index.
Series
Critical perspectives on youth.
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Introduction: Fast food kids
The family meal : eating together, eating apart
The cafeteria as great equalizer : making food good
The cafeteria as youth space : social bonds and barriers
Eat what's good for you : class and the cult of health
I'm lovin' it : fast food and after-school hot spots
Conclusion: Food futures and social change
Methods appendix.

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