The Unending Hunger Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders.

By:

Carney, Megan A [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520959675

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JV6602 .U546 2015

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Subject: 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 i.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	JV6602 .37 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn899157218

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "We Had Nothing to Eat": The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity; 2. Caring through Food: "La Lucha Diaria"; 3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of Sufrimiento; 4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project; 5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix One; Appendix Two; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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 i.

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