Tapias, Maria,

Embodied protests : emotions and women's health in Bolivia / Maria Tapias. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource - Interpretations of culture in the new millennium .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : embodied protests, emotions, and failing socialities -- Neoliberalism on the ground : political, economic, and social landscapes -- Physicality's sociality and sociality's physicality : fluid boundaries of the body -- The intergenerational embodiment of social suffering -- Anxious ambitions and the financing of tranquility -- Moving sentiments : emotions and migration -- Conclusion.

'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.



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2019718249


Psychophysiology--Etiology.--Bolivia
Women--Mental health--Sociological aspects.
Women--Bolivia.
Women--Health and hygiene--Sociological aspects.
Women--Psychology.--Bolivia
Culture.
Emotions.
Psychophysiologic Disorders--etiology
Socioeconomic Factors
Culture
Emotions
Women--psychology


Electronic Books.

HQ1537 / .E436 2015