Cover of Fashioning Appetite

Book 2013

Fashioning Appetite

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Social aspects
  • Food
  • Modern Civilization
  • Dinners and dining
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Appetite
  • Western Civilization
  • Restaurants

In this follow-up study to her Dining Out, sociologist Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life--restaurant dining--and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity.