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Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity

Life Off the Edge of the Table

von: Janet Page-Reeves
59,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	03.07.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9780739185278
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	324

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Titelbeschreibung

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women’s agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to food, demonstrating that the nature of food insecurity is multi-dimensional. The chapters portray how women develop strategies to make it possible to have food in the cupboard and on the table to be able to feed their families. Exploring these themes, this book offers a lens for thinking about the food system that incorporates women as agentive actors and links women’s everyday food-related activities with ideas about food justice, food sovereignty, and food citizenship. Taken together, the chapters provide a unique perspective on how we can think broadly about the issue of food insecurity in relation to gender, culture, inequality, poverty, and health disparity. By problematizing the mundane world of how women procure and prepare food in a context of scarcity, this book reveals dynamics, relationships and experiences that would otherwise go unremarked. Normally under the radar, these processes are embedded in power relations that demand analysis, and demonstrate strategic individual action that requires recognition. All of the chapters provide a counter to caricatured notions that the choices women make are irresponsible or ignorant, or that the lives of women from low-income, low-wealth communities are predicated on impotence and weakness. Yet, the authors do not romanticize women as uniformly resilient or consistently heroic. Instead, they explore the contradictions inherent in the ways that marginalized, seemingly powerless women ignore, resist, embrace and challenge hegemonic, patriarchal systems through their relationship with food.

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In Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table, 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures 
 

 
Tables 
 

 
Foreword 
 
June Nash
 
 
 
Acknowledgments
 

 
Part I: Introduction
 

 
Conceptualizing Food Insecurity and Women’s Agency: 
 
A Synthetic Introduction
 
Janet Page-Reeves
 

 
Part II: The Dimensionality of Food Insecurity
 

 
1. Another Time of Hunger
 
Teresa Mares
 

 
2. Women, Welfare and Food Insecurity
 
Maggie Dickenson
 

 
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
 
Janet Page-Reeves, Amy Anixter Scott, 
 
Maurice Moffett, Veronica Apodaca, and 
 
Vanessa Apodaca 
 

 
4. Negotiating Food Security along the U.S.-Mexican 
 
Border: Social Strategies, Practice, and Networks 
 
among Mexican Immigrant Women
 
Lois Stanford
 

 
Part III: Disparities in Access to Healthy Food 
 

 
5. ‘La Lucha Diaria’: Migrant Women in the 
 
Fight for Healthy Food127
 
Megan Carney
 

 
6. Women’s Knowledge and Experiences Obtaining 
 
Food in Low-Income Detroit Neighborhoods
 
Daniel J. Rose
 

 
7. Is the Cup Half Empty or Is It Half Full? 
 
Economic Transition and Changing Ideas of what 
 
is Food Insecurity in Rural Costa Rica
 
David Himmelgreen, Nancy Romero Daza, 
 
Allison Cantor and Sara Arias-Steele 
 

 
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 Process
 
Sharon Stowers
 

 
9. The Social Life of Coca-Cola® in Southern 
 
Veracruz, Mexico: How Women Navigate Public 
 
Health Messages and Social Support through 
 
Drink
 
Mary Alice Scott
 

 
10. ‘Women not like they used to be’: 
 
Food and Modernity in Rural Newfoundland
 
Lynne Phillips
 

 
Part V: Empowerment and Challenging the System
 

 
11. Labor and Leadership: Women in U.S. 
 
Community Food Organizing
 
Christine Porter and LaDonna Redmond
 

 
12. ‘I would have never….’: A Critical Examination of 
 
Women’s Agency for Food Security Through 
 
Participatory Action Research
 
Patricia Williams
 

 
Index
 

 
About the Contributors

Autorenportrait

Janet Page-Reeves is research assistant professor with the Office for Community Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is also a senior fellow in The New Mexico Center for the Advancement of Research Engagement and Science on Health Disparities.