COVID-19 disrupted families’ food supply. Based on in-depth interviews with 45 Black low-income mothers of young children in an underserved Houston, Texas, neighborhood from April 2020 to June 2021, w...

Objective This study advances contemporary theories of motherhood, mothering, and foodwork within the context of poverty by focusing on the ways that low-income Black mothers engage interdependent c...

In their 1997 book Making Ends Meet , Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein revealed how struggling single mothers strategized to support their families as the deepest welfare reform since the 1930s began. Upen...

Thirty years after Making Ends Meet , poor mothers continue to labor intensively to sustain their families. Following scholars emphasizing the fundamental causes of social inequalities, we address the...

Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigeno...