Embodied protests : emotions and women's health in Bolivia /
'Embodied Protests' examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 'Embodied Protests' examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780252097157 0252097157 |