Virtually Virgins: Sexual Strategies and Cervical Cancer in Recife, Brazil
Autor Jessica Greggen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2003
This book provides a detailed, intimate portrait of a community of women living in a shantytown (favela) in northeastern Brazil, while exploring the complex interplay between gender, sexuality, power, and disease. It reveals how poor Brasileiras are constrained by dominant cultural constructions of female sexuality as a dangerous force that must be controlled by men; yet these women also manipulate these expectations by using their sexuality as a means to secure economic support from men. The book argues that these constructions affect their interpretations of medical discourse on the prevention of cervical cancer. Since women view sex as both a force they can't control and as a necessary tool for their survival, they choose to de-emphasize medical warnings against risky sexual behavior, with grave consequences for their health. The text is threaded with poignant, humorous, sometimes graphic, and always memorable depictions of the women’s lives in the shantytowns, making this serious anthropological study a highly readable one as well.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804747561
ISBN-10: 0804747563
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
ISBN-10: 0804747563
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
Recenzii
"Virtuallly Virgins is a detailed, intimate ethnography of the cancers that afflict the social environment and the social body--real and metaphoric....Because this book is written in accessible language with careful and respectful works and a sense of unapologetic caring and competence, anthropologists should read, use it in classes, and recommend it."---American Ethnologist
Notă biografică
Jessica L. Gregg is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Tulane University.
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“Virtuallly Virgins is a detailed, intimate ethnography of the cancers that afflict the social environment and the social body--real and metaphoric....Because this book is written in accessible language with careful and respectful works and a sense of unapologetic caring and competence, anthropologists should read, use it in classes, and recommend it.”---American Ethnologist
Descriere
This book examines the conflict between cultural ideals of female sexuality in Brazil and the lived reality of sex for women in a poor shantytown in the country's northeast, probing the interplay between sexual expectations, sexual reality, and disease.