Feeding Anxieties

Zofia Boni is a social anthropologist and sociologist. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Zofia’s research interests focus on children's lives and embodied experiences, moral and political economies of food and health and the social dynamics of childhood obesity.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Eat in ContextChapter 2. Eat and Have some FunChapter 3. Eat just a Little Bit MoreChapter 4. Eat Like a Normal PersonChapter 5. Eat for the Greater GoodConclusionReferencesIndex

“The book provides a detailed and dense study of eating-feeding practices spread among school-age children, their parents and their school environment in post-transitional Poland. The book is very interesting, much needed and refers to the important dimension of late capitalist systems in Central Eastern Europe.” • Tomasz Rakowski, University of Warsaw