Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity : Life off the Edge of the Table.

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 Women -- Part 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 Process -- 9 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.

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.

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