Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2013 Transnational identity, food and community: The role of women in cultural continuity and resistance Claudia Marcela Prado Meza Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Sociology Commons, and the Sustainability Commons Recommended Citation Prado Meza, Claudia Marcela, "Transnational identity, food and community: The or le of women in cultural continuity and resistance" (2013). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 12994. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/12994 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Transnational identity, food and community: The role of women in cultural continuity and resistance by Claudia Marcela Prado Meza A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Sustainable Agriculture Program of Study Committee: Cornelia B. Flora, Major Professor Jan L. Flora Marta M. Maldonado-Pabon Katherine R. Bruna Gail R. Nonnecke Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2013 Copyright © Claudia Marcela Prado Meza, 2013. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi ABSTRACT vii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD IN TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY 1 Thesis Outline 2 CHAPTER 2. TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY, FOOD, AND THE VILLACHUATAN WOMEN 4 The Formation of a Transnational Community – A Review of the Literature 4 Understanding the Formation of a Transnational Community: Transnationalism and Food Culture 8 Transnationalism, Gender and Food 10 Community Capital Framework (CCF) as an Analytical Tool in Transnational Research 13 CHAPTER 3.