The sociology of food and eating : essays on the sociological significance of food / edited by Anne Murcott.

Aldershot : Gower, 1983.

viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm.

Eating, culture and social organisation. Eating virtue / Paul Atkinson -- Vegetarianism and the meanings of meat / Julia Twigg -- Living from hand to mouth : the farmworker, food and agribusiness / Howard Newby -- The hierarchy of maintenance and the maintenance of hierarchy : notes on food and industry / Eric Batstone -- Food, health and generation. The management of food in pregnancy / Sally Macintyre -- A question of balance : Asian and British women's perceptions of food during pregnancy / Hilary Homans -- Food for equilibrium : the dietary principles and practice of Chinese families in London / Erica Wheeler and Tan Swee Poh -- The goodness is out of it : the meaning of food to two generations / Mildred Blaxter and Elizabeth Paterson -- The salt of the earth : ideas linking diet, exercise and virtue among elderly Aberdonians / Rory Williams -- An apple a day-- some reflections on working class mothers' views on food and health / Roisin Pill.

(cont.) The sweet things in life : aspects of the management of diabetic diet / Tina Posner -- Cooking, gender and household. Lobster, chicken, cake and tears : deciphering wedding meals / Sara Delamont -- You are what you eat : food and family reconstitution / Jacqueline Burgoyne and David Clarke -- The way to a man's heart : food in the violent home / Rhian Ellis -- Men in the kitchen : notes from a cookery class / Tony Coxon -- Cooking and the cooked : a note on the domestic preparation of meals / Anne Murcott.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-193) and index.