In this Book
- Embodied Protests: Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium
summary
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. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias's definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces.
Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- 5. Moving Sentiments: Emotions and Migration
- pp. 105-126
- Conclusion
- pp. 127-132
- References
- pp. 141-154
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252097157
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039171, 9780252080746
MARC Record
OCLC
907774590
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-30
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015