This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as
democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall'ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in …

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and
incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's …

" Regime Change" argues against commonly held interpretations that see dieting as a
practice established in the 1920s to control women at a time when they gained suffrage and …

Low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Diet were especially popular in English-speaking
developed countries in the 1990s and 2000s. The popular low-carbohydrate literature …

Matforbruk er i økende grad blitt et spørsmål om ansvar og omsorg. I den nyliberalistiske
retorikken blir forbrukerne hele tiden oppfordret til å handle sunne, naturlige, økologiske …

Aspiring for health and fitness has become increasingly important for Norwegians. This is
expressed in many ways. For instance there has been a significant increase in the …

Offering online programs that target men and women separately, Weight Watchers
communicates, represents, and manipulates gender in its program marketing and materials …

Food-related embodied experiences are entangled in all aspects of subject positions, from
ethnicity to class, from age to gender. When it comes to masculinity, food plays a very …

Low-carbohydrate diets, notably the Atkins Diet, were particularly popular in Britain and
North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This paper approaches the low …

In this thesis I examine the low-carbohydrate diet trend as one response to the twin obesity
and diabetes epidemics. Sociological and cultural studies of dieting to date have been …