Volteando la tortilla
Subtitle: género y maíz en la alimentación actual de México
By: Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi (coordinadora)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México; Juan Pablos Editor
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Toluca de Lerdo, Estado de México; Ciudad de México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9786077114802; 9786074229684
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Corn; Social aspects; Women in agriculture; Women agricultural laborers; Social conditions; Indian women; Rural women
Description: Faced with complex, patriarchal and desolate scenarios resulting from neoliberalism, agri-food globalization, global warming and the contamination of native grains by the imposition of transgenics, the book question whether there is any alternative to preserve the native maize as a multi-strategic resource (as food, economic, cultural, ecological and technological) taking into account the current conditions of social inequalities of gender, ethnicity, class and age that predominate in the Mexican countryside. To answer some questions, this book presents some alternatives through diverse feminine experiences and of gender relations around corn and food. All of them show that it is possible to build a critical mass to safeguard native corn under these desolating conditions, but as long as this "tortilla is turned over", it will lead to the beginning of another humanized and in sync with nature reality. "In the face of complex, patriarchal and desolate scenarios and in full renegotiations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), where from here (we) we favor the withdrawal of corn and the basic grains of the agricultural chapter, we question whether there is give you an alternative to preserve native corn as a multi-strategic resource, with the conditions of social inequalities (of gender, ethnicity, class and age) that predominate in the Mexican countryside. The purpose of this work is to respond with diverse experiences, many feminine and gender related around corn, that it is possible to build a critical mass to safeguard it, but always and when the "tortilla turns"; the metaphor that gives rise to the beginning of another reality." (HKB Translation) -Page 17.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducción: género y maíz / Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi; title: "Volteando la tortilla", una metáfora de la formación de masa crítica femenina / Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi; title: Representatividades del alma; title: Repensando y problematizando la existencia; title: Desatarse del metate; title: Sobre las autoras y los autores.