ISBN:
0857284460
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1283377020
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9780857284464
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9781283377027
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (182 pages)
Series Statement:
Key issues in modern sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brown, Lisa Beljuli Body Parts on Planet Slum : Women and Telenovelas in Brazil
DDC:
791.456
Keywords:
Fine Arts
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference
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Poor women / Social conditions
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Slums
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Television soap operas
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Poor women Social conditions
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Slums
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Television soap operas
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Unterschicht
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Telenovela
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Frau
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Brasilien
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Brasilien
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Brasilien
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Telenovela
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Frau
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Unterschicht
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionFINAL FELIZ; Back Matter; ILLUSTRATIONS; TABLE: WOMEN RESPONDENTS; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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