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Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity - Life Off the Edge of the Table (Paperback)
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Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity - Life Off the Edge of the Table (Paperback)
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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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