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Foreword From The Gastronomical Me / M.f.k. Fisher -- Why Food? Why Culture? Why Now?: Introduction To The Third Edition / Carole Counihan And Penny Van Esterik -- [i.] Foundations: Why Do We Overeat? / Margaret Mead -- Toward A Psychosociology Of Contemporary Food Consumption / Roland Barthes -- Distinction: A Social Critique Of The Judgement Of Taste / Pierre Bourdieu -- The Culinary Triangle / Claude Lévi-strauss -- The Abominations Of Leviticus / Mary Douglas -- The Abominable Pig / Marvin Harris -- Industrial Food: Towards The Development Of A World Cuisine / Jack Goody -- Time, Sugar, And Sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- [ii.] Hegemony And Difference: Race, Glass, And Gender: More Than Just The Big Piece Of Chicken': The Power Of Race, Class, And Food In American Consciousness / Psyche Williams-forson -- The Overcooked And Underdone: Masculinities In Japanese Food Programming / T.j.m. Holden --^ Domestic Divo? Televised Treatments Of Masculinity, Femininity, And Food / Rebecca Swenson -- Japanese Mothers And Obentōs: The Lunch-box As Ideological State Apparatus / Anne Allison -- Mexicanas' Food Voice And Differential Consciousness In The San Luis Valley Of Colorado / Carole Counihan -- Feeding Lesbigay Families / Christopher Carrington -- Thinking Race Through Corporeal Feminist Theory: Divisions And Intimacies At The Minneapolis Farmers' Market / Rachel Slocum -- The Raw And The Rotten: Punk Cuisine / Dylan Clark -- [iii.] Consumption And Embodiment: Fast, Feast, And Flesh: The Religious Significance Of Food To Medieval Women / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Not Just A White Girl's Thing: The Changing Face Of Food And Body Image Problems / Susan Bordo -- De-medicalizing Anorexia: Opening A New Dialogue / Richard A. O'connor -- Feeding Hard Bodies: Food And Masculinities In Men's Fitness Magazines / Fabio Parasecoli --^ Cooking Skills, The Senses, And Memory: The Fate Of Practical Knowledge / David Sutton -- Not From Scratch: Thai Food Systems And Public Eating / Gisèle Yasmeen -- Rooting Out The Causes Of Disease: Why Diabetes Is So Common Among Desert Dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Between Obesity And Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry / Robert Albritton -- [iv.] Food And Globalization: As Mother Made It: The Cosmopolitan Indian Family, Authentic Food, And The Construction Of Cultural Utopia / Tulasi Srinivas -- Real Belizean Food: Building Local Identity In The Transnational Caribbean / Richard Wilk -- Let's Cook Thai: Recipes For Colonialism / Lisa Heldke -- Slow Food And The Politics Of Virtuous Globalization / Alison Leitch -- Taco Bell, Maseca, Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse For Mexico's Peasant Cuisine? / Jefferey M. Pilcher -- Food Workers As Individual Agents Of Culinary Globalization: Pizza And Pizzaioli In Japan / Rossella Ceccarini -- Of Hamburger And Social Space: Consuming Mcdonald's In Beijing Yungxiang Yan -- On The Move For Food: Three Women Behind The Tomato's Journey / Deborah Barndt -- [v.] Challenging, Contesting, And Transforming The Food System: The Chain Never Stops / Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food/organic Food: Reflexive Tastes And The Making Of Yuppie Chow / Julie Guthman -- The Politics Of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Update / Penny Van Esterik -- The Political Economy Of Food Aid In An Era Of Agricultural Biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp -- The Political Economy Of Obesity: The Fat Pay All / Alice Julier -- Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger To Inequality / Janet Poppendieck -- Community Food Security For Us, By Us: The Nation Of Islam And The Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla Mccutcheon -- Learning Democracy Through Food Justice Movements. Edited By Carole Counihan And Penny Van Esterik. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.