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Author: Janet A. Flammang
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.594kg
ISBN: 9780252076732
ISBN 10: 0252076737
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 06 October 2009
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative. Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures
Provocative... Flammang makes a convincing case for the centrality of food work and shared meals, much along the lines laid down by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters, but with more historical perspective and theoretical rigor. --Michael Pollan, The New York Review of Books A compelling argument reconnecting domesticity to civil society... Highly recommended. --Choice [Flammang] treats this subject with the high seriousness and scholarly insight it deserves. --Hypatia Eating is something we all have in common: it opens up both our senses and our consciences to our place in the world. Janet A. Flammang's The Taste for Civilization shows how the American family meal has been devalued from its role as a daily enactment of shared necessity and ritualized cooperation--and how important it is to restore the daily ritual of the table in our lives. --Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse An important and provocative book. --Gastronomica Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative. --Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures
"""Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative."" Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures"
Author Information
Janet A. Flammang is a professor and the chair of political science at Santa Clara University and the author of Women's Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics and other works.
