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Title:
Fast food kids : French fries, lunch lines, and social ties / Amy L. Best.
Author:
Best, Amy L., 1970- author.
Publication Information:
New York : New York University Press, [2017]

©2017
Call Number:
TX361.Y6 B47 2017
Abstract:
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
ISBN:
9781479802326
Series:
Critical perspectives on youth

Critical perspectives on youth.
Physical Description:
xiv, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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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