Bøger af Associate Professor of Sociology

Food reformers tell Americans to slow down. Cook from scratch. Eat dinner together. But is it really that simple? Pressure Cooker brings readers into the homes and kitchens of a diverse group of mothers to uncover what it really takes to feed the modern family and what really needs to change to ensure a fair, healthy, and sustainable food system that nourishes everyone.

America's Four Gods is an unprecedented investigation into what average Americans think about God. Utilizing survey data and in-depth interviews, Froese and Bader demonstrate how Americans have four distinct conceptions of God and how these different Gods lie at the heart of the major social, moral, and political divisions in our country.

What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.