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The unending hunger : tracing women and food insecurity across borders / Megan A. Carney.

By: Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520284005 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0520284003 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780520959675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520959671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520285477
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.83/9812083 23
LOC classification:
  • JV6602 .C37 2015
Contents:
"We had nothing to eat" : the biopolitics of food insecurity -- Caring through food : "La lucha diaria" -- Nourishing neoliberalism narratives of sufrimiento -- Disciplining caring subjects : food security as a biopolitical project -- Managing care : strategies of resistance and healing.
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."--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks JV6602 .C37 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001358877

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"We had nothing to eat" : the biopolitics of food insecurity -- Caring through food : "La lucha diaria" -- Nourishing neoliberalism narratives of sufrimiento -- Disciplining caring subjects : food security as a biopolitical project -- Managing care : strategies of resistance and healing.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

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