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Author Carney, Megan A., 1984- author.

Title The unending hunger : tracing women and food insecurity across borders / Megan A. Carney
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : illustrations
Contents "We had nothing to eat" : the biopolitics of food insecurity -- Caring through food : "La lucha diaria" -- Nourishing neoliberalism narratives of sufrimiento -- Disciplining caring subjects : food security as a biopolitical project -- Managing care : strategies of resistance and healing
Summary "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 how 'food security' comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women's relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women immigrants -- United States
Mexicans -- United States.
Central Americans -- United States.
Food security -- United States
Food security -- Government policy -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Central Americans
Food security
Mexicans
Women immigrants
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520959675
0520959671
9780520284005
0520284003