Indulgence in bodywork : constructions of the self through food consumption practices

• Main Author: Lim, Kang Ying
• Other Authors: Dina Marie Binwag Delias
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70348
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to examine how middle class young Singaporean adults construct their sense of self through food consumption practices which manifest bodywork, and contribute to literature on bodywork and the sociology of the self and the body. While bodywork has assumed increasing significance in p...