04282nam 2200685 450 991079116810332120230126205357.00-7391-9607-30-7391-8527-6(CKB)2550000001328886(EBL)1732040(OCoLC)883571116(SSID)ssj0001262698(PQKBManifestationID)12569154(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001262698(PQKBWorkID)11216641(PQKB)11568677(MiAaPQ)EBC1732040(Au-PeEL)EBL1732040(CaPaEBR)ebr10891909(CaONFJC)MIL625990(EXLCZ)99255000000132888620140723h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen redefining the experience of food insecurity life off the edge of the table /edited by Janet Page-ReevesLanham, Maryland ;London, England :Lexington Books,2014.©20141 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-8526-8 1-306-94739-1 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.WOMEN REDEFINING THE EXPERIENCE OF FOOD INSECURITY; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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 Mexico4 Negotiating Food Security along the U.S.-Mexican Border: Social Strategies, Practice, and Networks among Mexican Immigrant WomenPart 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 Practices8 Salvadoran Immigrant Women and the Culinary Making of Gendered Identities: "Food Grooming" as a Class and Meaning-Making Process9 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; IndexAbout the Contributors<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table</span><span> </span><span>, contributors stress the relationship between food insecurity and women's agency. By problematizing the mundane world of how women procure and prepare food in a context of scarcity, this book, edited by Janet Page-Reeves, reveals dynamics, relationships and experiences that would otherwise go unremarked, and counters constructions of women's choices as predicated on ignorance, irresponsibility or weakness. </span></span>Food supplySocial aspectsFood habitsCross-cultural studiesFood securityCross-cultural studiesWomenSocial conditionsCross-cultural studiesWomenEconomic conditionsCross-cultural studiesFood supplySocial aspects.Food habitsFood securityWomenSocial conditionsWomenEconomic conditions641.3Page-Reeves JanetMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791168103321Women redefining the experience of food insecurity3809185UNINA