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"Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women's agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Page-Reeves, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Temas:
Food supply > Social aspects.
Food security > Cross-cultural studies.
Food habits > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > Social conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > Economic conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Sécurité alimentaire > Études transculturelles.
Habitudes alimentaires > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > Études transculturelles.
Femmes > Conditions économiques > Études transculturelles.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Aspect social.
COOKING > General.
Food habits
Food security
Food supply > Social aspects
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction. Conceptualizing Food Insecurity and Women's Agency: A Synthetic Introduction
  • Part II. The Dimensionality of Food Insecurity. 1. Another Time of Hunger
  • 2. Women, Welfare and Food Insecurity
  • 3. 'I took the lemons and I made lemonade': Women's Quotidian Strategies and the Re-Contouring of Food Insecurity in a Hispanic Community in New Mexico
  • 4. Negotiating Food Security along the U.S.-Mexican Border: Social Strategies, Practice, and Networks among Mexican Immigrant Women
  • Part III. Disparities in Access to Healthy Food. 5. 'La Lucha Diaria': Migrant Women in the Fight for Healthy Food
  • 6. Women's Knowledge and Experiences Obtaining Food in Low-Income Detroit Neighborhoods
  • 7. Is the Cup Half Empty or Half Full? Economic Transition and Changing Ideas About Food Insecurity in Rural Costa Rica
  • Part IV. Women's Agency and Contested Practices. 8. Salvadoran Immigrant Women and the Culinary Making of Gendered Identities: "Food Grooming" as a Class and Meaning-Making Process
  • 9. The Social Life of Coca-Cola in Southern Veracruz, Mexico: How Women Navigate Public Health Messages and Social Support through Drink
  • 10. 'Women not like they used to be': Food and Modernity in Rural Newfoundland
  • Part V. Empowerment and Challenging the System. 11. Labor and Leadership: Women in U.S. Community Food Organizing
  • 12. 'I would have never ... ': A Critical Examination of Women's Agency for Food Security Through Participatory Action Research
  • Index.

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