Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering, and Care in Chile

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Prologue 1 1 Unfinished Care 9 2 Feeling the State’s Gaze on Intimate Violence 40 3 “Exhaustion”: Becoming a Victim and a Deserving Citizen 54 4 Entanglements of Violence and Individualized “Cures” 89 5 Sanación: Excavating the “Ordinary” to Move beyond Violence and Misery 110 6 Contingencies of Care 137 7 The Ills of Medicalizing Violence and the Work of Ethnography in Processes of Care 159 APPendix 1 169 APPendix 2 173 notes 175 works cited 185 index 201 ContentS ...