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Book SynopsisShelley L. Koch is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director of the Masters of Arts program in Community and Organizational Leadership at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia, USA.
Trade ReviewThis book dramatically illustrates the work and significance of food provisioning. Scholars wishing to identify problems in the food system or offer prescriptions for change would do well to read this text. * Tracey Deutsch, Department of History, University of Minnesota *
This work represents a much-needed link to books focusing on aspects of the US food chain from production through consumption. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate students through professionals. -- J. M. Deutsch, CUNY Kingsborough Community College * CHOICE *
An interesting, thought provoking read...this book examines the whole business of grocery shopping (from a U.S. perspective) with a social organisational slant... It is an academically-focussed work yet it also tries to be accessible and of interest to the mainstream, enthusiastic reader. This fine balancing act seems to have been well managed and the back of the book has a massive bibliography and very detailed index for those who require this level of access. * Yum.fi *
A Theory of Grocery Shopping covers new and interesting territory theoretically, and does so using both illustrative respondent quotations and examples from the different areas of social discourse ... [A]n engaging and accessible read. * Contemporary Sociology *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shopping Our Way To Change The Historical and Social Context of Grocery Shopping The Work of Grocery Shopping Shopping and Nutrition Discourse The Efficient Housewife Discourse The Food Marketing Discourse Competing Discourses and The Work Of Food Shopping Conclusion Bibliography Index
