The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(the WIC program) has promoted the health of low-income families for more than
30 years by providing nutrition education, supplemental food, and other valuable
services. The program reaches millions of families every year, is one of the largest
nutrition programs in the United States, and is an important investment in the
nation's health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture charged the Institute of Medicine
with creating a committee to evaluate the WIC food packages (the list of specific
foods WIC participants obtain each month). The goal of the study was to improve
the quality of the diet of WIC participants while also promoting a healthy body
weight that will reduce the risk of chronic diseases. The committee concluded that
it is time for a change in the WIC food packages and the book provides details on
the proposed new food packages, summarizes how the proposed packages differ
from current packages, and discusses the rationale for the proposed packages.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword: When Gender Can’t Be Seen amid the Symbols:Women and the Mexican Revolution
- Introduction: Pancho Villa, the Daughters of Mary, and the Modern Woman:Gender in the Long Mexican Revolution
- Part One: Embodying Revolutionary Culture
- Unconcealable Realities of Desire: Amelio Robles’s (Transgender) Masculinity in the Mexican Revolution
- The War on Las Pelonas: Modern Women and Their Enemies, Mexico City, 1924
- Femininity, Indigenismo, and Nation:Film Representation by Emilio ‘‘El Indio’’ Fernández
- Part Two: Reshaping the Domestic Sphere
- ‘‘If Love Enslaves . . . Love Be Damned!’’: Divorce and Revolutionary State Formation in Yucatán
- Gender, Class, and Anxiety at the Gabriela Mistral Vocational School, Revolutionary Mexico City
- Breaking and Making Families: Adoption and Public Welfare, Mexico City, 1938–1942
- Part Three: The Gendered Realm of Labor Organizing
- The Struggle between the Metate and the Molinos de Nixtamal in Guadalajara, 1920–1940
- Gender, Work, Trade Unionism, and Working-Class Women’s Culture in Post-Revolutionary Veracruz
- Working-Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla
- Part Four: Women and Revolutionary Politics
- Gendering the Faith and Altering the Nation:Mexican Catholic Women’s Activism, 1917–1940
- The Center Cannot Hold: Women on Mexico’s Popular Front
- Epilogue
- Rural Women’s Grassroots Activism, 1980–2000: Reframing the Nation from Below
- Final Reflections: Gender, Chaos, and Authority in Revolutionary Times
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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