Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina - Softcover

Sutton, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813547407 ISBN 13: 9780813547404

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2010

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Book by Sutton Professor Barbara

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"Bodies in Crisis is one of the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original work." - Javier Auyero, author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown"

Reseña del editor:

Born and raised in Argentina and still maintaining significant ties to the area, Barbara Sutton examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in that country during a period of profound social upheaval. Based primarily on women's experiential narratives and set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, Bodies in Crisis illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies. Sutton reveals the bodily scars of neoliberal globalization; women's negotiation of cultural norms of femininity and beauty; experiences with clandestine, illegal, and unsafe abortions; exposure to and resistance against interpersonal and structural violence; and the role of bodies as tools and vehicles of political action.
Through the lens of women's body consciousness in a Global South country, and drawing on multifaceted stories and a politically embedded approach, Bodies in Crisis suggests that social policy, economic systems, cultural ideologies, and political resistance are ultimately fleshly matters.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813547407
• ISBN 13: 9780813547404
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270