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abortion, 5–6, 7, 99–100, 106–114; ambivalence about, 111, 113–114; antiabortion advertising and, 100; barriers to access to, 117; Catholic Church and, 10, 109, 123; clandestine, 117–125, 126; class and, 9, 10, 108, 114, 118; contraception and, 100, 109, 122–123; cost of, 121; criminalization of, 97, 103, 117, 125–127; decriminalization of, 100–101, 108–109, 111, 198; doctors and, 123–124, 126; gag rule (U.S.) and, 105, 197; homemade, 118–119; intersectional analysis and, 10, 192–193; legislation about, 103, 216n6; men and, 116; mistreatment by providers of, 120–121; motherhood and, 128; pain of, 119, 122; as personal decision, 108, 109, 115–117; poverty and, 108, 109, 111–112, 114, 116, 193; prevalence of, 103, 107, 114, 120; profits for practitioners of, 125–126; rape and, 109, 113, 216n7; risks of, 108, 110, 119, 120, 126, 200; social inequalities and, 127–128; as social justice issue, 125–127, 198; social movement attention to, 127, 169; societal effects of, 125–127; support network access and, 124–125; violence against women and, 115; women’s bodies and, 128, 192–193. See also contraception; reproductive politics Acker, Joan, 6 activism. See social movement organizing Adair, Vivyan, 40 AIDS, 55, 112, 206 Alberdi, Juan Bautista, 215n3 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 139 Alfonsín, Raúl, 23, 24, 211n16 Alliance for Work, Justice, and Education (party coalition), 24, 211n16, 211n17 ALUBA (Asociación de Lucha contra la Bulimia y la Anorexia), 73, 214n10 AMMAR (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la Argentina), 147 Amnesty International, 142 appearance, physical. See beauty; femininity, normative Argentina, 159–160; abortion rates in, 103, 120; appearance of prosperity in, 70; Conquest of the Desert (1880s), 19; constitution of, 210n9; as cosmetic surgery tourist destination, 79–80; democratic government of, 2, 22, 23, 163, 218n18; demonstrations of December 2001 in, 1, 2–3, 163, 174; eating disorders in, 73; economic crisis in (see economic crisis); economic outlook for, 203–204; emigrants from, 19; ethnoracial composition of, 26; European immigration to, 19–20, 25, 215n3; exports from, 20; femininity in, 64–65, 66–67; fertility rate of, 215n4; guerrilla groups in, 22; health system in, 53–54, 57–58, 102; history of, 2–3, 19–25, 36–37, 65; indigenous heritage of, 196; international agreements of, 120, 198; international position of, 39, 191, 196; Iraq war and, 218n3; legislation in (see legislation); military coups in, 211n11; military dictatorship in (see dictatorship, military); National Census of, 26, 211n19; national identity of, 64–65, 67, 83, 86, 196; neoliberal economics in (see economics, neoliberal); 247 Index Argentina (continued) neoliberal globalization and (see globalization, neoliberal); political parties in, 20, 24, 170, 211n11; politics in, 30–31, 70, 103–104, 184–185; population of, 102; psy culture in, 31–33, 99; race and (see race and ethnicity); racism and (see racism); recovered factories in, 168–169, 212n30; reproductive politics and, 102–103; as site of social experimentation, 4, 62; social movement history of, 163–165; state terrorism in (see state terrorism); United States and, 70, 218n3; urban character of, 15; violence against women in, 132–135; war with England, 23; white appearance in, 195–196; women’s police stations in, 144; women’s subordinated status in, 7–8, 65–66, 94 Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A), 22 asados (beef barbecues), 51, 213n9 bank accounts, freezing of, 25, 49 bartering clubs, 212n31 beauty: buena presencia and, 72–73; class and, 72, 74–75, 76–77; economic crisis and, 78; employment and, 72–73, 196; health and, 75, 76; intersectional analysis of, 193, 196; media and, 69, 78, 196; men as judges of, 77; neoliberal globalization and, 201; Peronism and, 196, 214n4; poverty and, 44, 72, 76–77; protest tactics and, 219n4; racism and, 7, 9, 82, 84–85; rituals of, 66, 78, 195; standards of, 66–67, 70–71; transnational representations of, 80; value of in women, 46, 71–72; women’s decorative role and, 89; women’s subordination and, 65–66, 94. See also cosmetic surgery; femininity, normative beauty contests, 65, 80, 196 Belej, Cecilia, 80 Belforte, Amelia, 32 Birgin, Haydée, 28 birth. See motherhood bleaching syndrome, 83–84 Blofield, Merike, 104 bodies, 13, 14, 47; bodily memory and, 150; boundaries between, 61; cultural inscription and, 37; economic crisis and, 79–80, 204; embodiment and, 89–90; emotions and, 59, 62, 173–174; essentialism and, 96, 194, 218n1; as evidence of poverty, 41–42; as evidence of violence, 148–149; as glocal geographies, 11, 195; individual vs. social...