Virtually Virgins : Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil /

This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (favela) in northeastern Brazil, while exploring the complex interplay between gender, sexuality, power, and disease. It reveals how poor Brasileiras are constrained by dominant cultural constructions of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gregg, Jessica L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Anthropology > Latin America.
Anthropology > Race, Class, and Gender.
Anthropology > Science, Technology, and Medical Anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Women Interviewed
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Culture, Gender, and Ethnography
  • 2. The 'Ilha': Life in a Brazilian Shantytown
  • 3. "A Woman Has to Stay in the House": Gender and Sexuality in the 'Ilha'
  • 4. Sexuality and Risk: Biomedical Constructions of Brasileira Sexuality
  • 5. Sexuality as Survival: Favelada Constructions of Women's Sexuali
  • 6. Expedient Boundaries: Security and Agency in the Ilha
  • 7. Rearranging Risk: Local Understandings of the Pap Smear
  • 8. "I've Eaten so Many Good Men Since You Left": Liberdade, Resistance, and Ambivalence in the 'Ilha'
  • 9. "You Get it if You Go out Looking for a Man": Cervical Cancer and Stigma
  • 10. Living with Inflammation, Dying from Cancer, and Curing an Incurable Disease
  • 11. Some Survivors
  • APPENDIX 1 Methodology
  • APPENDIX 2 Economic Data for the Sample of Women with Cancer
  • APPENDIX 3 Impact of Screening Services on Cervical Cancer Morbidity and Mortality
  • APPENDIX 4 Nonbiomedical Forms of Healing
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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