Purpose: Literature from across the social sciences and research evidence are used to highlight interdisciplinary and intersectional research approaches to food and family. Responsibilisation emerges as an important thematic thread, as family has (compared with the state and corporations) been...

Over the past half century, consumers in Australia have increasingly been confronted with a plethora of health food products. This paper focuses on health food that encourages consumption through the promise of health benefits. In this context, media representation of such food serves as a lens...

The social construction of health food over half a century in magazine advertising in the Australian context is examined using documentary evidence and a socio-historical perspective. This paper explores the idea that health foods have over the years been socially constructed by multiple...