The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders - Softcover

Carney, Megan A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520285476 ISBN 13: 9780520285477

Publisher: University of California Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Incisive, empathetic, and engaging . . . The rich data Dr. Carney has obtained through her engaged anthropology are a compelling indictment of the human failings of our national food system."-- (01/26/2015)

"Well-written and thoroughly researched . . . The Unending Hunger is an important exploration of the promise of a better life in the United States."-- (12/15/2015)

"Compelling... masterfully [contributes] to discussions of biopolitics and boundaries."-- (05/01/2016)

"Well grounded... fascinating." --Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"A timely critical engagement with the partner concepts of food security and insecurity . . . The Unending Hunger has much to offer
a wide range of scholarly and applied readers."-- (01/15/2016)

About the Author:

Megan A. Carney is a Lecturer in Anthropology and in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the University of Washington, Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520285476
• ISBN 13: 9780520285477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294