The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders [Paperback]

Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in womens 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 womens relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.

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

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. We Had Nothing to Eat: The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity
2. Caring Through Food: La Lucha Diaria
3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of Sufrimiento
4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project
5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing
Conclusion

Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B

Notes
References

The Unending Hunger is a lucid, hard-hittting, and gripping ethnography of Mexican and Central American women migrants in Santa Barbara County, California. Carney unveils the harsh indignities and structural causes of their food insecurity as well as their creative and defiant struggles to eat and live well. Carole Counihan, coeditor ofFood Activism: Agency, Democracy, and Economy

In this beautiful and incisive ethnography, Carney debunks common conceptualizations about food security and insecurity; in the process, she exposes immigrant womens formidable capacity tlƒ5