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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tapias, Maria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.
ISBN:9780252097157
0252097157