1st Edition
Food Practices and Social Inequality Looking at Food Practices and Taste across the Class Divide
Introduction: Looking at Food Practices and Taste across the Class Divide Jennifer Smith Maguire
1. Food Acquisition in Poughkeepsie, NY: Exploring the Stratification of "Healthy Food" Consciousness in a Food-Insecure City Leonard Nevarez, Kathleen Tobin and Eve Waltermaurer
2. Cultural and Symbolic Capital With and Without Economic Constraint: Food Shopping in Low-Income and High-Income Canadian Families Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman and Elaine M. Power
3. Making the Most of Less: Food Budget Restraint in a Scandinavian Welfare Society Annemette Nielsen and Lotte Holm
4. Tortillas, Pizza, and Broccoli: Social Class and Dietary Aspirations in a Mexican City Susan Bridle-Fitzpatrick
5. The Possibilities and Limits of Personal Agency: The Walmart that Got Away and Other Narratives of Food Acquisition in Rural Texas Wesley R. Dean, Joseph R. Sharkey and Cassandra M. Johnson
6. From "Junk Food" to "Treats": How Poverty Shapes Family Food Practices Wei-Ting Chen
7. Understanding Food Access in a Rural Community: An Ecological Perspective Rosalie M. Rodriguez and Kamini Maraj Grahame
Biography
Jennifer Smith Maguire is Associate Professor of Marketing in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research focuses on the construction of markets, tastes and value. Major areas of work include cultural intermediaries as taste makers, and the cultural production and consumption of provenance and authenticity as forms of value.
