ISBN:
9781498572859
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (231 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.46109729
Keywords:
Social medicine-Latin America
Abstract:
Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean uses case studies, ethnographic research, and theoretical analysis to craft locally defined cultural critiques of gender and health in modern Latin American societies as well as for Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Gender, Health, and Society -- Chapter One. Freedom in Practice: Art Making and the Politics of Women's Incarceration in Argentina -- Chapter Two. Dominican Bugarrones: (in)Visibility, Masculinities, and Same-Sex Performances -- Chapter Three. Making a Man: Reflections on Masculinities and Bodily Capital in the Chongos of Quito, Ecuador -- Chapter Four. Becoming Endemic: The Zika Virus Epidemic and Gendered Power in Puerto Rico -- Chapter Five. Gender and Conceptualizing Concern for Sickle Cell Disease in Guadeloupe -- Chapter Six. Convergent Therapies in Peru's Amazon: Enriching Mental Wellness through Ayahuasca and Psychotherapy -- Chapter Seven. Queer Families in the Margins: Considering Gender and Health in U.S.-Andean Gay Adoptions -- Chapter Eight. "Here to Stay in the Bay!": The Politics of Vestibularity, Black Trans Women of Jamaica, Gendered Duress, and the Work of Recognition -- Chapter Nine. Traversing Violence: Central American Mujerx and the Mental Health Impacts of Forced Migration -- Chapter Ten. Access to Health Care, Institutional Violence, and Resistance of Female Transgender Sex Workers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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