Overview

Editors:

John McMillan
Associate Professor in Ethics, Law and Professionalism. Flinders University, Adelaide

John Coveney
Associate Professor in Ethics, Law and Professionalism, Flinders University, Adelaide

A special issue on food, ethics and identity, and their impacts on health, is timely since rising food costs, drought, an increasing focus upon prevention of chronic disease through adoption of healthy lifestyles, and ethical considerations in relation to food production and transport, all call into question consumer capacity to make and feel confident in food choices.

Key contemporary sociological issues in the Special Issue will relate to governmentality (and critiques of neoliberalism), food access and rights to food, identity, consumerism, and gender (see attached abstracts). The specific topics to be addressed in this issue are:

• Identity and values based food consumption
• Governance of diet and the moral impact of dietary advice
• Governance of childhood obesity
• Rights to food
• Gendered food consumption

Table of Contents

Editorial: What took you so long? Sociology's recent foray into food
John McMillan, John Coveney

Fostering a hunger for health: Food and the self in ‘The Australian Women's Weekly'
Tanja Schneider, Teresa Davis

Between provisioning and consuming?: Children, mothers and ‘childhood obesity'
JaneMaree Maher, Suzanne Fraser, Jo M Lindsay

Being ‘thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Sventlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic, Kirsten Bell, Gwen E Chapman, Brenda L Beagan

I'm not dieting, ‘I'm doing it for science': Masculinities and the experience of dieting.
Anna Mallyon, Mary Holmes, John Coveney, Maria Zadoroznyj

Habits of a lifetime: Family dining patterns over the lifecourse of older Australians
Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Dorothy H Broom, Anna Davies

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