Food Books

New and Published Books

1. Human Animal Studies

   An Introduction

   By Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

   Human relationships to animals (both ‘real’ animals and the ideas attached to animality) have shifted over the last century. Pet ownership is on the increase, wildlife has gone from being a threat to being threatened, and animal science ruptures traditional ideas about animal capabilities and human...

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
3. Exercise and Eating Disorders

   An Ethical and Legal Analysis

   By Simona Giordano

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
4. Diets and Dieting

   A Cultural Encyclopedia

   By Sander L. Gilman

   Diets and dieting have concerned—and sometimes obsessed—human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony...

   Published May 19th 2009 by Routledge
5. Men and the War on Obesity

   A Sociological Study

   By Lee F. Monaghan

   Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men? According to official statistics, the majority of men in nations such as England and the USA are overweight or obese. Public health officials, researchers, governments and various...

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
6. Fair Trade

   The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

   Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

   This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South...

   Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge
7. Food, Morals and Meaning

   The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating, 2nd Edition

   By John Coveney

   Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures...

   Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge
8. Food, Morals and Meaning

   The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating, 2nd Edition

   By John Coveney

   Published May 10th 2006 by Routledge
9. Food Nations

   Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

   Edited by Warren Belasco, Philip Scranton

   Series: Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

   This original collection abandons culinary nostalgia and the cataloguing of regional cuisines to examine the role of food and food marketing in constructing culture, consumer behavior, and national identity....

   Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge
10. Carnal Appetites

    FoodSexIdentities

    By Elspeth Probyn

    In Carnal Appetites, Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the impact of our modes of consumption on our identities. 'You are what you eat'...

    Published September 11th 2000 by Routledge