| Vegetarianism and the Social Sciences: A Bibliography |
| Note: This bibliography includes research-based and theoretical works on the social aspects of vegetarianism. If you know of any other such works than are listed here, please email me at dmaurer@academic-editor.com. |
| Amato, Paul, and Sonia Partridge. 1989. The New Vegetarians: Promoting Health and Protecting Life. New York: Plenum. |
| Back, Kurt, and Margaret Glasgow. 1981. "Social Networks and Psychological Conditions in Dietary Preferences: Gourmets and Vegetarians." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 2:1-9. |
| Beardsworth, Alan, and Teresa Keil. 1992. "The Vegetarian Option: Varieties, Conversions, Motives, and Careers." The Sociological Review 40:253-293. |
| Beardsworth, Alan, and Teresa Keil. 1993. "Contemporary Vegetarianism in the U.K.: Challenge and Incorporation?" Appetite 20:229-234. |
| Cooper, Charles, Thomas N. Wise, and Lee S. Mann. 1985. "Psychological and Cognitive Characteristics of Vegetarians." Psychosomatics 26(6):521-527. |
| Jabs, Jennifer, Carol M. Devine, and Jeffery Sobal. 1998. "Maintaining Vegetarian Diets: Personal Factors, Social Networks, and Environmental Resourcs." Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research 59(4):183-189. |
| Jabs, Jennifer, Carol M. Devine, and Jeffery Sobal. 1998. "Model of the Process of Becoming a Vegetarian: Health Vegetarians and Ethical Vegetarians." Journal of Nutrition Education30:196-202. |
| Jabs, Jennifer, Jeffery Sobal, and Carol M. Devine. 2000. "Managing Vegetarianism: Identities, Norms and Interactions." Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 39:375-394. |
| Hamilton, Malcolm. 2000. "Eating Ethically: 'Spiritual' and 'Quasi-Religious' Aspects of Vegetarianism." Journal of Contemporary Religion 15(1):65-83. |
| Kim, Esther, H., Karen M. Schroeder, Robert F. Houser, Jr., and Johanna T. Dwyer. 1999. "Two Small Surveys, 25 Years Apart, Investigating Motivations of Dietary Choice in 2 Groups of Vegetarians in the Boston Area." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 95(5):598-601. |
| MacNair, Rachel. 1998. "The Psychology of Becoming a Vegetarian." Vegetarian Nutrition 2:96-102. |
| Maurer, Donna. 1995. "Meat as a Social Problem: Rhetorical Strategies in the Contemporary Vegetarian Literature." Pp. 143-164 in Eating Agendas: Food and Nutrition as Social Problems, edited by Donna Maurer and Jeffery Sobal. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. Click for excerpt. |
| Maurer, Donna. 2002. Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment? Philadephia: Temple University Press. |
| Dietz, Thomas, Ann Stirling Frisch, Linda Lalof, Paul C. Stern, and Gregory Guagnono. 1995. "Values and Vegetarianism: An Exploratory Analysis." Rural Sociology 60(3):533-542. |
| This bibliography of vegetarianism and the social sciences was created by Donna Maurer, Ph.D., author of Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment? (Temple University Press, 2002). |
| Maurer, Donna. 1999. "Too Skinny or Vibrant and Healthy?: Weight Management in the Vegetarian Movement." Pp. 209-229 in Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems, edited by Jeffery Sobal and Donna Maurer. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. |
| McKenzie, John. 1971. "Profile on Vegans." Plant Foods in Human Nutrition 2(2):79-88. |
| Ossipow, Lawrence. 1995. "Vegetarianism and Fatness: An Undervalued Perception of the Body." Pp. 127-143 in The Social Aspects of Obesity, edited by I. de Garine and N. J. Pollack. Luxembourg, Belgium: Gordon and Breach. |
| Delahoyde, Michael, and Susan C. Despenich. 1994. "Creating Meat-Eaters: The Child as Advertising Target." Journal of Popular Culture 28(1):135-149. |
| Adams, Carol. 1991. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum. |
| Dwyer, Johanna, Laura D.V. H. Mayer, Kathryn Dowd, Randy Frances Kandel, and Jean Mayer. 1974. "The New Vegetarians: The Natural High?" Journal of the American Dietetic Association 65:529-536. |
| Dwyer, Johanna, Laura Mayer, Randy F. Kandel, and Jean Mayer. 1973. "The New Vegetarians: Who Are They?" Journal of the American Dietetic Association 62:503-509. |
| Fiddes, Nick. 1997. "Declining Meat: Past, Present . . . and Future Imperfect?" Pp.252-266 in Food, Health, and Identity, edited by Pat Caplan. New York: Routledge. |
| Fiddes, Nick. 1991. Meat: A Natural Symbol. New York: Routledge. |
| Freeland-Graves, Jeanne H., Sue Greninger, Glenn R. Graves, and Robert K. Young. 1986. "Health Practices, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Vegetarians and Nonvegetarians." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 86:913-918.. |
| Freeland-Graves, Jeanne H., Sue Greninger, and Robert K. Young. "A Demographic and Social Profile of Age- and Sex-Matched Vegetarians and Nonvegetarians." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 86:907-913 |
| Gvion-Rosenberg, Liora. 1990. "Why Do Vegetarian Restaurants Serve Hamburgers? Toward an Understanding of a Cuisine." Semotica 80 (1-2):61-79. |
| to be continued |