Price: $39.95
Page Count: 236
Publication Date: August 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77258-331-1
This volume builds on the important idea that ethnic cultural practices clash with the mainstream in situations of migration by exploring themes of nutrition, religion, survival, resistance, autonomy, patriarchy and biomedical hegemony, among others. Particularly timely is the research pertaining to mothers navigating the challenges of combining nutrition with cultural norms leading to the conclusion that the Westernization of local diets has not only led to the consumption of fewer nutrients but also to the devaluation of cultural practices, for which women are often blamed. A highly engaging read that portrays food as a sight of reproduction and empowerment for migrant women, this book is truly significant to women’s studies, anthropologists, and transnational feminist migration scholars.
-Dr. Anna Kuroczycka Schultes, immigration scholar, co-editor of The Migrant Maternal: Birthing New Lives Abroad
Moving Meals and Migrant Mothers is a fascinating volume that brings together the feminist analysis of motherhood and food studies with scholarship in globalization, migration, and transnational studies. The contributors examine how food, infant feeding, home cooking, and identity are affected by diaspora, migration, and globalized foodways, providing insights into how the labor surrounding food remains gendered—and asking what this means for the mothers
who prepare food, cultivate culture, and nourish and feed family.
- Heather Hewett is an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an
affiliate of the Department of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
0. Cassidy, Tanya M. and El Tom, Abdullahi.
Introduction
PART I
Moving Meals, Markets and Mothers
1. Pasche Guignard, Florence
You Have to Taste Everything!: Mothers, migrations and French food rules.
2. Rodriguez, Maria Elena
From Happy Meals to Celebrity Chefs: Shifting attitudes towards mothers and traditional food in Puerto Rico
3. Pérez, Ramona Lee
Flavors of Domesticity: Routine, alienation, resistance and celebration in home cooking
PART II
Migrating Mothers, Performing Identity through Making Meals
4. Loewen, William, Loewen, Gladys, Shepherd, Sharon
Food without Borders: Adaptive expressions of mothering
5. Ore, Hadas
Traversing the Mythology of the Female Home Cook - Jewish-Israeli Mothers ‘Cooking’ Homes in New Zealand
6. Abram, Dorothy
Symbol and Sel-Roti: The Taste of Return in Womens’ Nepali-Bhutanese-Hindu Refugee Identity and Ritual. Performance
PART III
Meanings and Experiences of Migrant Maternal Meals
7. Chapman, Gwen & Habib, Sandiza
Intersections of Discursive, Social, and Material Contexts of ‘Good Mothering’: Immigrant Mothers’ Experiences with Infant Feeding and Nutrition in Metro Vancouver
8. De Souza, Ruth
Going Without: Migrant Mothers, Food and the Postnatal Ward [in New Zealand Hospitals]
9. Zhou, Qianling, & Haoyue, Chen
Infant Feeding Among Chinese Mothers in Ireland.
10. Vallianatos, Helen
Migration, Mothers, Meals: Immigrant Mothers’ Experiences and Perspectives on Feeding Children
Dr. Tanya M. Cassidy is International Convener for the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health (SNPCH) at Dublin City University (DCU) in Ireland. She is also a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow, a Cochrane Fellow, as well as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). She is the author of several publications including What’s Cooking Mom: Narratives about food and families (Demeter, 2015) and Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways From Maternal Perspectives (Demeter, 2016).
Dr. Abdullahi Osman El-Tom, Emeritus Fellow at Maynooth, recently retired as Head of the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is the author of several publications and previously co-edited with Tanya the well-received Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural contexts and confrontations (Bloomsbury, 2015).
