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Author:   Deborah Barndt
Publisher:   Sumach Press
Imprint:   Sumach Press
Weight:   0.457kg
ISBN:  

9781894549356

ISBN 10:   189454935
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 June 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Perhaps the World Ends Here - Joy Harjo Introduction: In the Belly of the Beast: A Moveable Feast - Deborah Barndt Part I: The Bigger Picture: Gender and Global Restructuring Chapter One: Remaking Traditions : How We Eat, What We Eat and the Changing Political Economy of Food - Harriet Friedmann Chapter Two: Whose Choice ? Flexible Women Workers in the Tomato Food Chain - Deborah Barndt Chapter Three: Serving the McCustomer: Fast Food is Not about Food - Ester Reiter Part II: Women Workers in the Food System: Stories from Mexico to Canada Chapter Four: The Poisoning of Indigenous Migrant Women Workers and Children: From Deadly Colonialism to Toxic Globalization - Egla Martinez-Salazar Chapter Five: Mexican Women on the Move: Migrant Workers in Mexico and Canada - Antonieta Baron Chapter Six: From Where Have All the Flowers Come? Women Workers in Mexico's Non-Traditional Markets - Kirsten Appendini Chapter Seven: Putting the Pieces Together: Tennessee Women Find the Global Economy in Their Own Backyards - Fran Ansley Chapter Eight: Serving Up Service: Fast-Food and Office Women Workers Doing It with a Smile - Ann Eyerman Chapter Nine: Not Quite What They Bargained For: Female Labour in Canadian Supermarkets - Jan Kainer Part III: Signs of Hope: Women Creating Food Alternatives Chapter Ten: Putting Food First: Women's Role in Creating a Grassroots System outside the Marketplace - Debbie Field Chapter Eleven: Grassroots Responses to Globalization: Mexican Rural and Urban Women's Collective Alternatives - Maria Dolores Villagomez Chapter Twelve: Women as Organizers: Building Confidence and Community through Food - Deborah Moffett & Mary Lou Morgan Chapter Thirteen: A Day in the Life of Maria: Women, Food, Ecology and the Will to Live - Ofelia Perez Pena Chapter Fourteen: A Different Tomato: Creating Vernacular Foodscapes - Lauren Baker Glossary Organizations Contributors' Notes Royalties Dedication, Photo Credits

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An incisive and compelling examination of the ways in which women produce, resist and re-invent within the structures and traditions of the increasingly globalized agrifood system. A simultaneously disturbing and hopeful story. -- Patricia Allen, Associate Director for Sustainable Food Systems, University of California

An incisive and compelling examination of the ways in which women produce, resist and re-invent within the structures and traditions of the increasingly globalized agrifood system. A simultaneously disturbing and hopeful story. - Patricia Allen, Associate Director for Sustainable Food Systems, University of California

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Deborah Barndt teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She has worked in social justice and popular education programs in Latin America, the US and Canada over the past twenty-five years.

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