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The unending hunger : tracing women and food insecurity across borders / Megan A. Carney.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carney, Megan A., 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Mexicans--United States.
- Mexicans.
- Central Americans--United States.
- Central Americans.
- Food security--United States.
- Food security.
- Food security--Government policy--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how "food security" comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women's relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. "We Had Nothing to Eat": The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity
- Chapter Two. Caring through Food: La Lucha Diaria
- Chapter Three. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of Sufrimiento
- Chapter Four. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project
- Chapter Five. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Appendix One. General Region Characteristics (2010- 12)
- Appendix Two. List of Participants
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520285477
- 0520285476
- 9780520959675
- 0520959671
- OCLC:
- 899157218
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