Pressure Cooker - Bowen, Sarah (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor ; Brenton, Joslyn (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Profess; Elliott, Sinikka (Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Profes
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Pressure Cooker brings readers into the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of mothers to uncover what it really takes to feed the modern family and what really needs to change to ensure a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system that nourishes everyone. Dispelling many common myths about food politics, this book challenges the revival of romantic food ideals that would have mothers returning en masse to the kitchen in order to reduce obesity or limit the environmental ravages of global food production.

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Pressure Cooker brings readers into the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of mothers to uncover what it really takes to feed the modern family and what really needs to change to ensure a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system that nourishes everyone. Dispelling many common myths about food politics, this book challenges the revival of romantic food ideals that would have mothers returning en masse to the kitchen in order to reduce obesity or limit the environmental ravages of global food production.
Autorenporträt
Sarah Bowen is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. Her work focuses on food systems, local and global institutions, and inequality in the United States, Mexico, and France. She is author of Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production (University of California Press, 2015). Joslyn Brenton is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ithaca College. Her research focuses on the sociology of health and illness, with a particular focus on how mothers of young children think about food, health, and the body. Sinikka Elliott is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia where she researches and teaches on the topics of gender, sexuality, inequality, and family. She is the author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers (NYU Press, 2012).