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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tapias, Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : embodied protests, emotions, and failing socialities
  • Neoliberalism on the ground : political, economic, and social landscapes
  • Physicality's sociality and sociality's physicality : fluid boundaries of the body
  • The intergenerational embodiment of social suffering
  • Anxious ambitions and the financing of tranquility
  • Moving sentiments : emotions and migration
  • Conclusion.