Women redefining the experience of food insecurity : life off the edge of the table / / edited by Janet Page-Reeves

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 641.3
• Soggetto topico: Food supply - Social aspects; Food habits; Food security; Women - Social conditions; Women - Economic conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): Page-ReevesJanet
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Mexico ; 4 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 Practices ; 8 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; Index ; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Women redefining the experience of food insecurity
• ISBN: 0-7391-9607-3; 0-7391-8527-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819524503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II