Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display
of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the
restaurant, from local cafe to Michelin-starred establishment,
deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic
Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, 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. In Fashioning Appetite,
the restaurant becomes a liminal space in which public and private
boundaries are constantly renegotiated, where our personal
celebrations and seductions are conducted within full view of the
next table, and where eating alone has become a perilous social
minefield. When food is fetishized and identity becomes a
capitalist commodity, the experience of the restaurant transforms
appetite into both a pleasure and a torment in which being
satisfied with one's meal is linked to being satisfied with
oneself. Applying new research in emotional capitalism to popular
culture's pervasive images of conspicuous consumption, Finkelstein
builds a cultural portrait in which every forkful is weighted with
meaning.
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