Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity

Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity

Janet Page-Reeves

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Comida y sociedad
ISBN:
9780739196076
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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.

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