"It's Always a Struggle:" Maternal Negotiations of Food Vulnerability in San Antonio's Urban Mexican American Households

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorFleuriet, K. Jill
dc.contributor.authorBenavidez, Victoria A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHalvaksz, Jamon
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGonzalez, Jerry
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-09T19:29:10Z
dc.date.available2024-02-09T19:29:10Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionThis item is available only to currently enrolled UTSA students, faculty or staff. To download, navigate to Log In in the top right-hand corner of this screen, then select Log in with my UTSA ID.
dc.description.abstractFood security in the United States is precarious in low-income, densely urban neighborhoods. Residents of food insecure communities consciously and actively develop strategies to act and respond to inconsistencies of structurally built and historically based restrictions. Recent literature has shown that eating and shopping patterns reflect social class patterns, which in time, influence health. Food practices, including shopping patterns, operate as a form of habitus, or an embodied arrangement of social practices. In this thesis, I document Mexican American maternal narratives to provide healthy food for children in densely urban, food insecure neighborhoods. Their strategies and actions emerge in specific shopping, production and consumption patterns to combat food insecure environments. In effect, these maternal strategies can be seen as distinct forms of resistance to unequal distribution of quality, affordable food. Acts of eating and shopping for food encompass a system of values and rules. Maternal narratives function both as explanation and as classification of the social and symbolic world in which the mothers see themselves inhabiting.
dc.description.departmentAnthropology
dc.format.extent57 pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.isbn9780438739673
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/2918
dc.languageen
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjecthealth disparities
dc.subjectMexican American
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectSan Antonio
dc.subjecturban health
dc.subject.classificationCultural anthropology
dc.subject.classificationWomen's studies
dc.subject.classificationHispanic American studies
dc.subject.classificationBehavioral psychology
dc.subject.classificationNutrition
dc.subject.classificationPublic health
dc.title"It's Always a Struggle:" Maternal Negotiations of Food Vulnerability in San Antonio's Urban Mexican American Households
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.accessRightspq_closed
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
Benavidez_utsa_1283M_12731.pdf
Size:
660.54 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Electronic Theses and Dissertations - UTSA Access Only