Unending Hunger - Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders

"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 pervasiveconditions 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."--Provided by publisher.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Megan A. Carney, Carney Megan A.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520285477
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28547-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; NATURE / Natural Resources, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Food security & supply, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Food security and supply