Body Parts on Planet Slum : Women and Telenovelas in Brazil.

This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women's use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Lisa Beljuli
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press/Wimbledon Publishing Co., 2011.
Colección:Key issues in modern sociology.
Temas:
Poor women > Brazil > Social conditions.
Slums > Brazil.
Television soap operas > Brazil.
Femmes pauvres > Brésil > Conditions sociales.
Téléromans > Brésil.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Poor women > Social conditions
Slums
Television soap operas
Brazil
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Main Matter; Chapter One THEODICY AND IDEOLOGY: 'EVERYBODY NEEDS AN IDEOLOGY TO LIVE'; As Classes Dominantes (The Dominant Classes); Se Deus Quiser (God Willing); Força de Vontade (Willpower); Alpinista Social (The Social Climber); Social Theodicy; Chapter Two THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH; BUT IN THE MEANTIME THEY SHALL WATCH TELENOVELAS; Jardim Cruzeiro (Crucifix Garden), January 1999; Santa Cruz (Holy Cross), 1982; Chapter Three SUFFERING SOAPS; FRAGMENTED BODIES; Introduction.
  • Chapter Four THE POLITICS OF THE VAGINABecoming 'Mais Nada' (Nothing Anymore); Active Structures
  • The Telenovelas and the Christian Church; Suffering and Pleasure; Conclusion; Chapter Five THE REDEMPTIVE WOMB; Becoming a Woman
  • The Womb; Ideologies of Possession: Minha Mulher (My Woman); The Womb and the Maternal Vagina in the Telenovela; The Non-Women; Conclusion; Chapter Six THE INVISIBLE BACK; Viewing and Labour; The 'Brazilian Miracle'; Maids and Slaves: Working as a Back; Winning Yourself a Trabalhador; Rags to Riches: Winning Yourself a Trabalhador in the Telenovelas; Maids and Madams.
  • ConclusionFINAL FELIZ; Back Matter; ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLE: WOMEN RESPONDENTS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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