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Autore |
Carney Megan A. <1984-> |
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Titolo |
The unending hunger : tracing women and food insecurity across borders / / Megan A. Carney |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-28547-6 |
0-520-95967-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women immigrants - United States |
Mexicans - United States |
Central Americans - United States |
Food security - United States |
Food security - Government policy - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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